MRS. MINNIE SKINNER BURIED WEDNESDAY

Services for Mrs. Minnie Skinner were held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist Church in Herman with burial in the Herman Cemetery with the Truhlsen Mortuary in charge.

Rev. Glen Emmert of the Herman Federated Church had charge of the services. Six grandsons of Mrs. Skinner were pallbearers. Mrs. Claude Yowell sang “In The Garden” and “Going Home”.

Minnie Wilson, daughter of Thomas R. Wilson and Mary A. Wilson was born at Blair, Nebraska November 23, 1870. She passed away at the Oakland Hospital in Oakland, Nebraska February 2, 1953 at the age of eighty two years.

At an early age she moved with her parents to the farm home at Vacoma, Nebraska. She attended school at Vacoma and the Blair High School. On July 16, 1891 she was united in marriage with John Skinner. To this union nine children were born.

Mr. and Mrs. Skinner operated the Spiker store for ten years. They then moved to the farm home west of Herman where she lived for fifty years. For the past two years she had made her home in Herman with her son, James and her sister, Mrs. Louise Pilcher.

Her husband, John Skinner passed away December 18, 1918. One son, Thomas, was killed in action in France October 5, 1918. Eight children survive.

They are four sons, John, James, Robert and William Skinner, all of Herman and four daughters, Mrs. Mary Loftis and Mrs. Jessie Shamburg of Herman, Mrs. Mabel Hovendick and Mrs. Elizabeth Lang of Craig. She is also survived by twenty three grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Two brothers, Thomas Wilson of Casper, Wyoming and Edward Wilson of Herman. One sister, Mrs. Louise Pilcher of Herman, other relatives and a host of friends.

Mrs. Skinner was a charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Jackson Peck Post of Herman and a Gold Star Mother.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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