MILDRED VINCENT SKINNER

SIKESTON -- Service for Mildred Vincent Skinner will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel here, with Dr. Jim Guffie officiating. Burial will be Garden of Memories cemetery at Sikeston. A Rebekah I.O.O.F. service was held Saturday.

Friends may call at the funeral home today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Skinner, 73 years old, of Sikeston, died Friday, March 15, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Aug. 29, 1917, in Sikeston, daughter of John Albert and Anna M. Brummit Shuffit.

She was an accountant and tax preparer, and had her own company, Mildred Vincent SKinner Tax Service,

She was member of First Baptist Church of Sikeston, and for 45 years was a member of Rebekah I.O.O.F. Number 533., where she was a past district deputy president, and past Noble Grand President.

In 1938, she married Carl L. Vincent. He preceded her in death July 12, 1958. She married Charles F. Skinner on June 14, 1968. He preceded her in Death, Sept. 5, 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Carl (Jack) Vincent of Shreveport, La., and Thomas R. Vincent of Kenai, Alaska; daughters, Carolyn Anne Hedeen of McComb, Ill., Marilyn Jo Evans, Sikeston, Lois Ellen Boley of Dover, Ark., and Alvena Kern of Clarkston, Mich.; stepdaughter, Sue Skinner Spraggs of Jefferson City, Mo.; three brothers, Bert Shuffit of Kellyville, Okla., Ray Shuffit of Kirkwood, Ariz., and Glenn Shuffit of Prescott, Ariz.; a sister, Lola Kifer of Coweta, Okla.; one granddaughter who was raised in her home, Sabra Vincent Roberts of Sikeston; 16 other grandchildren, and 12 great grandchildren. She is also survived by a special friend, Thomas H. Grady.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister.