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Ray Edwin Skinkle

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Ray Edwin Skinkle

Birth
Fowler, Benton County, Indiana, USA
Death
2 May 1957 (aged 50)
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Romney, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.2593, Longitude: -86.9103633
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Ray E. Skinkle
Romney - Ray Edwin Skinkle, 50, of Romney died at 6 a.m. Thursday in Home Hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient since Monday. He had been ill since Sunday.

Born near Fowler, he lived in Tippecanoe county most of his life. For two years, he had been employed as a mechanic in the Perkins and Loft garage at Romney. Prior to his employment there, he worked for 18 years for the John Deere Implement company at Lafayette. He was married in 1929 to Frances McRae.

Surviving with the widow are two sons, William R. (Bud) Skinkle and Jack M. Skinkle, both at home; two daughters, Miss Barbara Jean Skinkle, at home, and Mrs. James Hawkins of Lafayette; five foster children, Charles, Carol, Patty and Larry Muston and Timmy Massey, all at home; two brothers, Kecil Skinkle of Romney and Henry Skinkle of Atlanta, Ga., and three sisters, Mrs. William S. Perry of Otterbein, Mrs. William Waymire of Brookston, and Mrs. J. L. Wagner of Lafayette.


SKINKLE, Ray E. - Friends may call after 4 p.m. Friday at Hippensteel funeral home. Services at 3:30 Saturday in Hippensteel chapel, Rev. F. Joseph Crocker officiating; interment in Elmwood cemetery, Romney. A grandson, Paul Ray Hawkins of Lafayette, survives.
Ray E. Skinkle
Romney - Ray Edwin Skinkle, 50, of Romney died at 6 a.m. Thursday in Home Hospital, Lafayette, where he had been a patient since Monday. He had been ill since Sunday.

Born near Fowler, he lived in Tippecanoe county most of his life. For two years, he had been employed as a mechanic in the Perkins and Loft garage at Romney. Prior to his employment there, he worked for 18 years for the John Deere Implement company at Lafayette. He was married in 1929 to Frances McRae.

Surviving with the widow are two sons, William R. (Bud) Skinkle and Jack M. Skinkle, both at home; two daughters, Miss Barbara Jean Skinkle, at home, and Mrs. James Hawkins of Lafayette; five foster children, Charles, Carol, Patty and Larry Muston and Timmy Massey, all at home; two brothers, Kecil Skinkle of Romney and Henry Skinkle of Atlanta, Ga., and three sisters, Mrs. William S. Perry of Otterbein, Mrs. William Waymire of Brookston, and Mrs. J. L. Wagner of Lafayette.


SKINKLE, Ray E. - Friends may call after 4 p.m. Friday at Hippensteel funeral home. Services at 3:30 Saturday in Hippensteel chapel, Rev. F. Joseph Crocker officiating; interment in Elmwood cemetery, Romney. A grandson, Paul Ray Hawkins of Lafayette, survives.


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