Skeen, Amy E. Poling

Passed:

Age: 32

Source: Mountaineer

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1940-07-04

Information: AMY E. SKEENS PASSES MONDAY - Mrs. Amy E. Skeens, 32, who with her husband, Clifton Skeens, formerly resided in Jackson county, died Monday at her Cleveland, O. home.  The body was brought to Dunbar by the Mays mortuary and Rev. V. Winters conducted services that were held at the Goshen Baptist church with burial following in the church cemetery.  Besides the widower, a daughter, Christine, 12, survives.  Death was caused by burns that were received some time ago when the apartment building in which she was living burned.   JACKSON HERALD - MOTHER LOSES LIFE IN FIRE - The body of Mrs. Amy Skeen, 32, was brought to the Mays mortuary in Ripley on Tuesday night and funeral services were held at Goshen Wednesday and burial followed in the Skeen family cemetery.  Mrs. Skeen died in Cleveland Monday night at nine o'clock from burns received when the apartment in which the family lived was destroyed by fire one week ago Sunday.  During much of the time between the time she was burned and the time of her death, relatives and members of her family from this section were at her bedside, including her mother, Mrs. Addie Poling, of Kentuck.  She was the wife of Clifton Skeen, son of the late W. K. Skeen of Fletcher.  According to members of the family, when the apartment caught on fire the Skeen family was trapped in their part of the building and to make their way to the outside had to pass through one of the rooms enveloped in flames. The husband carried the daughter to safety and the daughter escaped without serious burns.  The husband was burned in making his escape, but not fatally.  The mother was badly burned about the face, head, breast and arms, and it was believed that she might have inhaled some of the flame.  She is survived by the husband, Clifton Skeen; one daughter, Christine; her mother, Mrs. Addie Poling, of Kentuck; four sisters, Mrs. Bud Skeen of Kentuck, Mrs. Claude Staats of Fairplain, and Reva and Hazel Poling, at home; three brothers, James Poling of Kentuck, Edgar Poling of Sissonsville, and Beecher Poling of Kentuck.  After the death of the sister Monday night, her brother, Edgar and sister, Hazel, started from Cleveland to return home to make the funeral arrangements.  When not far from Marietta, they wrecked their car and Miss Hazel was reported to be rather seriously hurt but it was not learned whether or not her injuries were such as to make it necessary for her to enter a hospital.