Skeen, Otho Howard
Passed: 1945-01-15
Age: 54
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Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 1945-01-19
Information: HEART ATTACH MONDAY EVENING IS FATAL TO FARMER. Otho Howard Skeen, 54 well known farmer of the Kenna section of the county, died suddenly at his home there Monday evening about five o'clock of a heart attack He had spent the day in Ripley and was apparently in good health, friends said. He was born November 10, 1890, in Jackson County, a son of the late David Leon and Cordelia Ann Winter Skeen. The funeral services are to be conducted this (Wednesday) morning at ten o'clock and burial will be in the Skeen cemetery at Kentuck. Surviving are his widow, Malissa Ann Godbey Skeen, and six children, Kermit, Hershel and Herman Skeen, all of Kenna; Mrs. Lorene Kiser of Charleston, and Dorline and Justine Skeen at home. His mother, Mrs. D.L. Skeen of Kenna; one brother, Herbert Skeen of Ripley, and two sisters, Mrs. P.P. Simmons, of Kenna and Mrs. James Poling of Riply.