

  <p>Skeen, Donald Avon</p>
  <p>Passed: 1945-01-17</p>
  <p>Age: 35</p>


  <p>Source: Jackson Herald</p>

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  <p>Obituary Date: 1949-04-01</p>
  <p>Information: Skeen, Donald Avon                    Services for Pfc. Donald Avon Skeen, 35, who before he entered the service during the late was, was a Grant District farmer, were held Sunday afternoon from the Goshen Church at Kentuck and burial was in the church cemetery with military honors.  The body arrived at the Vail Mortuary in Ripley last Friday.  Rev. Roy W. Fisher of the Ripley EUB Church officiated at the service.  Pfc. Skeen was killed at Encaux, France on January 17, 1945, just seventeen days after he left the States with a contingent headed for the battle front in Europe.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Glada Carpenter Skeen; a son, Larry Avon Skeen; two daughters, Martha Louree and Anita Sue, all of Ripley; his father, Dolph Skeen, and step-mother, Mrs. Laura Skeen; seven brothers, Denzil of Akron, Glenn, Roderick and Delbert, all of Charleston, Claude, Clifton and Randell, all of Kentuck; four sisters, Mrs. Mildred Boykin of Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Colleen Rose and Mrs. May Chancey, both of Charleston, and Mrs. Alleene Cummins of Staats Mills.  (from the Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection)</p>


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