Skeen, Benjamin ""Web"
Passed: 2003-02-03
Age: 80
Source: Charleston Daily Mail
Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 2003-02-05
Information: WINFIELD - Benjamin ""Web"" Skeen, 80, of Winfield went home to be with the Lord Feb. 3, 2003, after a short illness. He was a field representative for the U. S. Department of Labor, former secretary/treasurer of the W. Va. AFL-CIO, a member of Teays Valley Missionary Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge 170, Nitro, and a Marine Corps veteran of World War II. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mabel Sayre Skeen. He is survived by his wife, Janet A. Skeen of Winfield; daughters, Patricia Skeen and Lynette Shaw, both of Cross Lanes; sons, Jerry of South Charleston, David of Harpers Ferry, Ronald of Parkersburg, Richard of Vienna; step-sons, Curtis Rucker of Wytheville, Va., Ken Rucker of Dunbar; sister, Marie Skeen of Ripley; brother, Raymond Skeen of Evans; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at Teays Valley Missionary Baptist Church, Teays Valley, with Pastor Bruce Young, Pastor Gerald Sayre and Homer Fink officiating. Burial will be in Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Tyler Mountain Funeral Home, Cross Lanes. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Wegeners Granulomatosis Assoc. Int. P. O. Box 28660, Kansas City MO 64188-8660. Tyler Mountain Funeral Home, Cross Lanes, is in charge of arrangements.