Ninth Generation

7055. Wilbur Caul Skillman was born on 19 April 1914 in Little Mission Creek, Park, MT. He died from a sawmill accident on 8 May 1956 at the age of 42 in Livingston, Park, MT. He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Livingston, Park, MT. Killed in a sawmill accident.

Wilbur Caul Skillman and Joyce Groth were married on 22 November 1942 in Livingston, Park, MT. They were divorced. Joyce Groth, daughter of John T. Groth and Frieda Kakuske, was born on 14 July 1922 in Deer Lodge, MT. She died on 27 January 2000 at the age of 77. Mary Joyce Hidy, 77, of Lewistown and a former Livingston resident, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 2000, at the Lewistown Hospital. Graveside committal and burial were Tuesday, Feb. 1, in Mountain View Cemetery, Livingston. A memorial service at the Livingston Bible Church followed the committal. Franzen-Davis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
She was born July 14, 1922, at Deer Lodge, the daughter of John T. and Frieda Kakuske Groth. She spent her early life and attended schools in Garrison, where her father was employed with the Northern Pacific Railroad. The family later moved to Bozeman, and after several years, to North Dakota. They also lived in Billings for a year before moving to Reedpoint, where she graduated from high school. They then moved to Livingston. On Nov. 22, 1942 she married Wilbur C. Skillman in Livingston. The couple ranched and operated a small sawmill on Mission Creek south of Livingston. Wilbur died in an accident at the mill in May 1956, 14 years after they were married.
The family sold the ranch and moved into Livingston where she took training as a secretary and worked for Downer Lumber company. She also worked in Livingston restaurants for many years. In 1969 she married Lee Hidy and they were later separated. She was afflicted with mental illness in the later years of her life and spent several years in the hospital at Warm Springs, the Bozeman and Livingston Convalescent Centers and, since 1994, at the Montana Mental Health Nursing Care Center in Lewistown. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. She enjoyed music and played both the piano and accordion. She also enjoyed going for drives, picnics, hiking, reading and baking. Her family was very important to her and she worked hard to raise them.
Survivors include two sons, Charles R. Skillman of Glenwood Springs, Colo., and John T. Skillman of Lustre; two daughters, Eloise Skillman of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charlotte M. Pilon of Belgrade; two sisters, Doris Carter of Northglen, Colo., and Phyllis Brabec of Bellevue, Wash.; four grandchildren and four nieces. Memorials may be directed to the Montana Mental Health Nursing Care Center, 800 Casino Creek Dr., Lewistown, MT 59457. 02-03-00
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Wilbur Caul Skillman-673 and Joyce Groth-674 had the following children: