Isle of Wight-Fluvanna County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Skeeter, Leroy, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Funeral For Leroy Skeeter At Smithfield SMITHFIELD - Funeral services for Leroy Skeeter will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Bullock Funeral Home by the RevClaude Roberts. Burial will be in St. Luke's Memorial Cemetery. Mr. Skeeter, 84, retired oysterman, died in his home in Rescue Wednesday after a long illness. He was a Portsmouth native and lived in Rescue 75 years. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Isabel Marshall Skeeter; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Smith of Rescue; two sons, Edison R. Skeeter of Rescue and Casper C. Skeeter of Smithfield; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Leroy SKEETER, retired oysterman, b. 20 Dec 1877, Scottsville, Fluvanna Co., d. 3 Oct 1962, at home, Rescue, interred in St. Luke's Memorial Park*, Benns Church, 5 Oct 1962, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 40, No. 237, Thurs., Oct. 4, 1962, p. 3 *Additional information: Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #18: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #185334887. D.Cert. 28173 (Dist. 146 #53) His mother Mary Jane (POWELL; Mrs. Admiral) SKEETER (1850 - 1925) is buried in Riverview Methodist Church Cemetery, near Rescue. {IWCHS GSSTF report #21} Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/s236l2ob.txt