Isle of Wight-Fluvanna County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Skeeter, Leroy, 1962 

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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} 


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