OBITUARY: SKILES, Vonnie Peters - Warren County, Kentucky

Date: 18 August 2003
Submitted by Martha Lamkin, Email Registry ID#
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001235

NOTE: This obituary column, cut from newspapers of the time period, was
found pasted in an ancient dust-covered book at a yard sale I attended in
Louisville KY. I'm posting them verbatim in the hopes they will benefit
others. I have no further information and have no connection to any of
these names. I have no additional information on dates, or about which
newspapers the original columns were in or the year of publication.

The Park City Daily News, Thursday, July 27, 1944.

SKILES

Mrs. Vonnie Peters SKILES, wife of J. Ham SKILES, died Aug. 27, 1930,
at her home near Rich Pond, KY., following a several days' illness with
paralysis. Mrs. SKILES was 66 years of age. She was born and reared in
Warren Co., and was a daughter of the late Rev. Timothy C. PETERS, a
Methodist minister of the Louisville Conference, and Mrs. Rebecca Frogge
PETERS. In addition to her husband she is survived by four children, who
are: Garland H. SKILES, of Rich Pond; C. T. SKILES, of Brownwood, Texas;
Mrs. Carl C. HINKLE, of Centerville, Tenn., and Mrs. Buron ELROD, of Bowling
Green; also one sister, Mrs. Debbie R. MOSSBARGER, of Anchorage, and one
brother T. E. PETERS, of Denton, Texas. The following article was written
by Mrs. SKILES after the death of her father, Rev. T. C. PETERS:

"My Christian Home.
What has religion done for me? First of all it gave me a Christian home
which I have always esteemed a boon of priceless value. My father being a
Methodist minister our home was the preacher's home and frequent visits of
cultured Christian men and women to our humble dwelling place awakened in me
at an early age a desire to be like them. At the age of twelve years I
gave my heart to God and united with the Methodist Church. I have never
doubted my conversion.

This Christian home also furnished me with religious reading matter that
was beneficial to my Christian life. How important for parents to keep
religious literature before their children. In this Christian home there
was no mansion with servants, and many gay and giddy guests, but God and
love were there and many of God's messengers came and went leaving a
blessing on our humble home. I shall ever thank God for this Christian home. 
This happy childhood, Christian home has diminished. On the second day
of October, 1914, the angel of death came to this home and took from us the
dear father we loved so well. How we miss him, his smiling face, and
cheerful greetings we see no more on this earth, but by the grace of God we
have a sweet hope of seeing him beyond the grave."

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