Wayne E. SKYRME

SKYRME, FREDERICK, DEIST, NELSON, JAMBOR, MCGREEVEY, FERGUSON, THOMPSON, STEELE, KRUEGOR, BUSH

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/5/2011 at 20:44:46

Obituary - Wayne E. Skyrme

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Saturday, August 21, 2004

CLEAR LAKE — Wayne E. SKYRME, 81, 20 Sunset View Drive, died Thursday (Aug. 19, 2004) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the First Congregational Church, 205 W. 10th Ave N., Clear Lake, with Pastor Thom CHRISTIANS officiating. Interment will be held at Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City, with military honors provided by the Clear Lake V.F.W.

Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake. Memorials may be given to the Wayne SKYRME Memorial Fund.

Wayne was born May 12, 1923, in Angus, Neb., the son of Davies A.J. and Edna L. (FREDERICK) SKYRME.

After high school he enlisted in the Army on March 8, 1946, and served during World War II until 1949.

He married Mary Jean DEIST in 1946. He lived in Charles City and worked for Prudential Insurance Co.

He later moved to Mason City and worked for the Prudential Life Juvenile Home and was the director of the Frances Lauer Juvenile Home.

Wayne married Clarice "Mike" NELSON on Sept. 11, 1974, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He then worked at Handicap Village (Opportunity Village) for 25 years as a house parent and cottage director.

Wayne enjoyed photography and traveling. He was one of the organizers and member of the Arrowhead Club in Clear Lake.

Wayne was awarded both the Melvin Jones Award from the Lions and the Employee of the Year at Opportunity Village.

Wayne is survived by his wife, Clarice "Mike" SKYRME, of Clear Lake; daughter, Terri JAMBOR and her husband, Robert, of Lake Geneva, Wis.; son, Charles McGREEVEY and his wife, Karen, of Mason City; step-children, Linda FERGUSON, of Ventura, Craig NELSON and his wife, Tricia, of Creede, Colo., and Kim THOMPSON and her husband, Larry, of Clear Lake; two sisters, Genevieve STEELE and her husband, Wallace, of Ham Lake, Minn., and Ruth KRUEGOR, of Charles City; step-grandchildren, Lesley BUSH and her husband, Jeff, Jeff FERGUSON, Coleman NELSON, Caleb NELSON, Cameron NELSON, Gregory THOMPSON and Lindsey THOMPSON; stepgreat-grandchildren, Landon and Larrisa BUSH; and five nephews.

Wayne is preceded in death by his parents, first wife and two brothers, Gerald and Richard.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel,(641) 357-2193. www.colonialchapels.com

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2011