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- COLETTE V. SKINNER, 90, ONCE OF PULASKI, DIES
Newspaper December 12, 1994 | Watertown Daily Times (NY)
Colette V. Skinner, 90, formerly of Springbrook Apartments, died Sunday at Loretto Heights Nursing Home, Oswego, where she had been a resident since Aug. 7, 1987.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek, with the Rev. Robert Diamond, pastor of Grace Christian Center, Chittenango, officiating. Burial will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
There will be no calling hours. Donations may be made to the Pulaski Community Food Pantry.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Venita) Wilder, Pulaski, and Mrs. Sanford (Marion) Isham, Central Square; a son, Charles, Manlius; 21 grandchildren; 60 great-grandchildren, and 32 great-great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Mrs. William (Shirley) Isham, died in 1986.
Born March 25, 1904, in Watertown, a daughter of Nate and Ethel Hewlett Wilbur, she graduated from Pulaski High School and Central City Business Institute, Syracuse.
She married Lawrence C. Skinner Aug. 18, 1920, in Syracuse. They lived in Syracuse and Pulaski all their married life. Mr. Skinner died Aug. 20, 1991.
Mrs. Skinner was a retired credit manager for Atlantic Refining Co., Syracuse.
A former member of the Pulaski Congregational Church, she was a 50-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a charter member of the Old Tyme Fiddlers Association.
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1904 - 1994 (90 years)