Obituaries:  Rev. Logan Jones Skiles, Sabine Parish       S-420
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 25, 1995
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Rev. Logan Jones Skiles (Photo)

  Former pastor of the Antioch Baptist Church of Florien, the Rev.
Logan Jones Skiles of DeRidder, died at 5:15 p.m., Wednesday,
Sept. 20, at his residence. He was 70.

  Funeral services were held Saturday, Sept. 23, in the Dry Creek
Baptist Church, with the Rev. Lynn Clayton, and the Rev. Brad
Bickham officiating. Burial followed in the Bernice Cemetery,
under the direction of the Hixson Funeral Home.

  A native of Eldon, Missouri, he was a Navy veteran of World War
II, and moved to DeRidder in 1969. He had been pastor for a
number of churches, including Olivet Baptist Church in Sulphur,
and the Moss Bluff Baptist Church. He pastored Florien's Antioch
Baptist Church in the 1960's.

  He was presently pastor at Dry Creek Baptist Church. He was on
the Executive Board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, and was
moderator, budget chairman, and stewardship chairman for the
Beauregard Baptist Association.

  The Rev. Skiles served on the Board of the Baptist Student Union
at McNeese State University, and the Beauregard Memorial Hospital
Board in DeRidder. He held an honorary doctorate from Union
Seminary in Monroe, and had taught extension courses for 17
years, in the Beauregard and Vernon Baptist Associations.

  Survivors include his widow, Redia Smith Skiles; one son,
Michael Skiles of New Orleans; two daughters, Martha Paloquin(?)
of Rusk, Tex.; and Marion Skiles of DeRidder; two sisters, Hazel
Skiles Hees, and Helen Skiles Reed, both of Eldon, Mo.; one
brother, Victor Edward Skiles of Goodman, Mo.; and five
grandchildren.