

  <p>Skeen, Donald Avon</p>
  <p>Passed: 1945-01-17</p>
  <p>Age: 35</p>


  <p>Source: Jackson Herald</p>

  <p>Death Notice: </p>

  <p>Obituary Date: 1945-02-16</p>
  <p>Information: PVT. DONALD SKEEN IS KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK IN FRANCE - The list of war dead for Jackson County reached fifty-eight last Thursday morning when Mrs. Glada Skeen, of Ripley, was notified by the War Department that her husband, Pvt. Donald Skeen, had been killed in a train accident in France on Jan. 17.  Pvt. Skeen was a farmer in the Murraysville community of the county before entering the service several months ago. He had been overseas only a few days at the time he was killed.  He was 35 years old, and a native of the Kentuck community, where his father, W. D. Skeen, still resides.  His wife is the former Glada Carpenter of Gay. They have three children, Louree, Anita and Larry. In addition to his wife and three children and his father, other survivors include, Warrant Officer Glenn Skeen in North Carolina, Cpl. Claude Skeen in Calif., Denzil Skeen in Calif., Mrs. Mildred Boykin of Detroit, Mrs. Auvil Chancey of Charleston, Roderick and Arlene Skeen of Charleston, and Colleen and Randall Skeen of Kentuck.    (McIntyre)</p>


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