

  <p>Skeen, Samuel Leroy ""Sam"</p>
  <p>Passed: 2013-04-04</p>
  <p>Age: 66</p>


  <p>Source: Charleston Daily Mail</p>

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  <p>Obituary Date: 2013-04-05</p>
  <p>Information:      Samuel Leroy ""Sam"" Skeen, 66, of Ripley, passed away April 4, 2013, at Jackson General Hospital, Ripley, following a short illness.   Sam was born October 23, 1946, at Kenna, son of Willadeen Parsons Skeen Poling of Ripley and the late Samuel Odell Skeen.  He was a graduate of Ripley High School and West Virginia University where he was in ROTC and earned a master&#39;s degree from the College of Graduate Studies at Institute.  He was a school teacher with 35 years of service for the Jackson Board of Education, having taught at Ripley High School and later at Arch Moore Vocational and Technical Center, which later became Roane-Jackson Technical Center.  He was an avid outdoorsman and a writer.  Sam was a member of Open Bible Church.  In additional to his mother, Willideen Parsons Skeen Poling, he is survived by his wife of 42 years, Terry Shaw Skeen; a sister-in-law, Joyce Dalton of Morgantown; aunts, Glenna Parsons, Janet Boggess, Cathleen Burdette, Ruth Burdette and Ruby Hersman; uncle, Paul Parsons; cousins, Pam Cambell and her husband, Sid; and special friends, Cathy Akers, John Riddle, Tommy Young and Shannon Gayle Price.  Funeral service will be 2 p.m., Sunday, April 7, at Waybright Funeral Home, Ripley, with Pastor Jimmie Compton officiating. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Ripley.  Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.</p>


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