Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Zilpha Elizabeth Skaggs Ackerman
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/24/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
APRIL 10, 2002

ZILPHA ELIZABETH ACKERMAN

     Proctor-Graveside services for Zilpha Elizabeth Ackerman will be held 
Saturday, April 13, at 10 a.m. at the Proctor Cemetery under the direction of 
the Reed-Culver Funeral Home with Rev. Gene Budy officiating.
     Pallbearers will be Bob Skaggs, John Lockwood, Steven Cain, Dick Hamby, 
Larry Skaggs and Wayne Bateman.
     Zilpha Ackerman was born Dec. 17, 1911 in Maysville Ark., the daughter of 
George Wesley and Maud Ann (Loftis) Skaggs and passed from this life on April 6, 
2002 in Hot Springs Ark.
     She married Arthur James Ackerman on Oct. 6, 1941, and was a member of 
Browning Baptist Church in Turney, Mo.
     She is preceded in death by her husband, Arthur James Ackerman; two 
brothers, Edgar Winford Skaggs and Herrell Wesley Skaggs; and two sisters, 
Hattie Willdella Budy and Margaret Catherine Hart.
     She is survived by her daughter Maude "Marty" Lynch and husband Wayne, of 
Hot Springs, Ark.; a son, Paul Ackerman and wife Kathy, of Stockton, Calif.; 
daughter Jane Ackerman of St. Joseph, Mo.; and her brother, Woodrow Uvelda 
Skaggs of Tahlequah; as well as a host of friends and loved ones.
     Memorial contributions may be made to the First Church of the Nazarene 
Missionary Medical Plan, 3804 Central Ave. Hot Springs, Ark., 71913, (501) 525-
1343