Skeen, Rocky Lee

Passed: 1973-01-25

Age: 25

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1973-02-02

Information: RIPLEY MAN IS KILLED BY FALLING SCAFFOLD - Rocky Lee Skeen, 25, of Ripley, was instantly killed Thursday afternoon while working for a roofing company at the Charleston Memorial Hospital.  Co-workers told members of Skeen's family that Skeen and another worker of the Harris Roofing Company were on the ground at the hospital site when the scaffold at the top of the hospital building, which is said to be six stories high, came crashing down.  The co-worker said he jumped aside but Skeen was unable to escape.  Skeen received massive head injuries.  He had been an employee of the roofing company for three years.      The funeral service was held Sunday at the Casto Funeral Home at Evans with the Rev. Gerald Sayre and Rev. Frank Ashworth officiating and the burial was in Blaine Memorial Cemetery at Cottageville.  He was born May 18, 1947 at Cottageville, son of the Rev. Raymond and Ann Elizabeth Baker Skeen of Cottageville and was a member of the Local Union of Sheet Metal No. 202, after six years of service. In addition to his parents, he is survived by two daughters, Noelle and Heather, both at home; two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Upton of Leon and Miss Rebecca Skeen, at home; one brother, Benjamin, with the U.S. Army in Germany; two half-brothers, Roderick Harless of Dunbar and Larry Harless of Peytona; and a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Clara Baker of Evans.