Elizabeth (Wiggins) Skellenger (1941)

MCMANIS, PENFIELD, SKELLENGER, WIGGINS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 2/8/2012 at 19:10:55

Newspaper Unknown
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
October 1941

Obituary - Skellenger

Elizabeth Wiggins was born in Madison County, Iowa to Luther and Mary Wiggins, on January 20, 1868, and passed away October 22, 1941, at her home near Broadwater.

On February 15, 1886, she was married to C. H. Skellenger. The couple made their home in Des Moines. Four children were born to them: Luther, who died at the age of four, Lester, of Broadwater, Hazel McManis, of Denver, Colorado, and Victor of Holman, Colorado.

Mrs. Skellenger became a charter member of the Calvary Baptist church on her 30th birthday.

The family came to Morrill County in April 1909, homesteading northeast of Broadwater. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1936. Mr. Skellenger died in 1937.

Mrs. Skellenger had been a member of the Royal Neighborhood Lodge since 1908. In recent months, she had united with the Presbyterian Church in Broadwater.

Besides the three living children, there survives a brother, Wallace Wiggins, of Ragley, Louisiana, a sister May Penfield, of Wheatland, Wyoming; six grandchildren and one great grandchild.

The funeral service was held at the Broadwater Presbyterian church on October 24, conducted by Rev. Howard Osborne, of the Presbyterian church in Bridgeport.

Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery, Broadwater, in charge of the Cassidy Mortuary in Broadwater.

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