Tenth Generation

8880. Walter Mortimer Skillman was born on 6 May 1898 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. General Electric Names Two to New Sales Posts.

SYRACUSE - Paul L. Chamberlain, manage of sales of the receiver division of the General Electric Company has been named manager of sales in the transmitter division, succeeding Philip G. Caldwell, who will leave July 1 for a position with the American Broadcasting Company.

Walter M. Skillman, formerly sales manager of standard line radios, will succeed Chamberlain as manage of sales in the receiver division. The transmitter division produces products for the broadcasting and communications industries while the receiver division makes radio and television sets for use in the home or places of entertainment. Between 1933 and 1953 he was a manager of marketing. He died acute pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus on 15 September 1953 at the age of 55 at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Cause of death was acute pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus. Walter lived 405 Hickory St. in Liverpool, NY on 15 September 1953. He was buried on 18 September 1953 at Friend Southwestern Cemetery in Delaware Co., PA.

Walter Mortimer Skillman and Helen Ogden Openshaw were married in 1931 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Helen Ogden Openshaw, daughter of James Openshaw and Charlotte Ann Ogden, was born in 1904 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. She was buried on 1 December 1967 at Friends Southwestern Burial Ground, 236 Powell Lane in Upper Darby, PA. She died on 1 December 1967 at the age of 63.