John V. Skelton, obit Cascade Co., MT

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John V. Skelton

John V. Skelton, 51, of 726 1st Ave., N., a former director 
of the Indian Center in Missoula, died Saturday of liver 
failure at a local hospital.

Cremation has taken place; services will be announced at a 
later date by O'Conner Funeral Home.

He was born Nov. 5 1944, in Great Falls. He married Diane 
Phipps in Great Falls in 1962. He moved to Missoula in 1974, 
graduating from the University of Montana with a bachelors 
degree in social work in 1980. While in Missoula, he was 
instrumental in organizing, the first sentence review board 
in the city court and established the first "Take a Ride 
Home" New Years Eve program, and was director of the Indian 
Center. He divorced and returned to Great Falls in 1989.

He was an avid Montana historian and advocate for the poor 
people, and enjoyed fishing, hunting, and the outdoors.

Survivors include his son, John L. Skelton, Bill V. Skelton,
Jason L. Skelton and Paul D. Palin, all of Missoula; his 
parents, John D. and Clara Skelton, and a brother, James 
Skelton, all of Great Falls; and one grandchild.