Skeen, Park A.

Passed: 1936-03-13

Age: 49

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1936-03-20

Information: Funeral services for Park A. Skeen, age 49 years old, and son of Peter Cleek and Charlotte Cleek Skeen, were held Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock at his home in Charleston and the body was brought to the Skeen cemetery near Kentuck where a short service was held Sunday afternoon and interment followed in the cemetery.  Mr. Skeen worked as usual on Friday and came home in the afternoon.  He was standing in his back yard and suddenly swooned and dropped to the ground.  He was dead when members of his family and neighbors reached him.  A heart attack is said to have caused death.  He was employed by the Standard Brick Company, of Charleston, and had just returned to his home after the day's work was done.  The Kanawha county coroner was called and said that death had been caused by a heart attack and ordered the body prepared for burial.  He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Stella Skeen; three daughters, Geneva, June and Janet Skeen; two sons, Marshall and Jack Skeen, all at home; three brothers, Major, Benjamin and Jacob Skeen, of Kentuck; two sisters, Mrs. Earnest Counts of Kentuck and Mrs. W. W. Polsley, of Ewington, Ohio.     [from the Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection]