Eleventh Generation

11297. Gregory Allan "Greg" Skillman was born on 27 November 1954 at Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. He served in the military between 1974 and 1976 at U.S. Navy in Rota, Spain. Photographer, stationed in Rota, Spain. Between 1976 and 2000 he was a Color printer at Gordon Professional Color Lab in Baltimore (Independent City), Baltimore, MD. Greg died on 14 February 2000 at the age of 45 at Route 1 in Fallston, Harford, MD. Obits in Balto. Sun, MD Gazette, the Aegis and a co-worker:

Balto. Sun 2/17,19/2000
Traffic accident on Rt. 1 near Fallston, MD. Drifted over center line and hit larger truck head-on.

Maryland Gazette 2/19/2000.
A memorial service for Gregory Allan Skillman of Joppa, and formerly of Linthicum, will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Schimunek Funeral Home, 610 W. MacPhail Rd., BelAir.
Mr. Skillman, 45, was killed Monday in a head-on collision on Route 1 in Fallston. Born Nov. 27,1954 in Baltimore he was raised in Linthicum. After graduating from Andover High School in 1973 and the Naval Photography School in Florida in 1974, he served as an U.S. Navy photographer in Rota, Spain, from June 1974 to June 1976.
Mr. Skillman's interest in photography began when he was a teenager and learned to develop and print his own pictures. During his high school years, he served as staff photographer for the school newspaper and as a free-lance photographer for the Maryland Gazette. A photographer and custom printer, he has worked in the photography field for the past 22 years in Baltimore. He started his career with Gordon Color Lab and for the past 10 years worked for K.C. Color Lab.
Not only was photography his vocation, it was also his avocation. He spent many hours photographing his favorite subjects, nature and architecture. And he never missed the chance to photograph nature's spectaculars. He and his wife were vacationing in Cancun, Mexico in 1988 when Hurricane Gilbert hit the island and forced their evacuation to the mainland. He shot many photographs of the storm, its devastation and the evacuation. When he returned home, some of his photographs were used with the newspaper account of the couple's experience in the Maryland Gazette. In addition to photography, Mr. Skillman was a music fan,particularly of rock and blues, and frequently attended concerts throughout the area. In addition to listening to music, he spent hours taping and making custom compact discs designed with his photographic art for relatives and friends. His other hobbies included gardening, animals, and collecting cameras.
Prior to moving to Harford County 10 years ago, Mr. Skillman resided in the Canton area of Baltimore.
He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Patricia Mulligan; his parents, Anne C. and William A.Skillman of Linthicum; a brother, Thomas R. Skillman of Baltimore; a sister, Karen S. Brash of Catonsville; two nieces, Sarah H. Brash of Catonsville and Katherine A. Brash of Pasadena; and two nephews, Eli J. Brash of Catonsville and James A. Brash of Pasadena.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Maryland SPCA, 3300 Falls Road or the National Humane Education Society, 15B Catoctin Circle, Leesburg, VA 22075.
Arrangements were by Schimunek Funeral Home

Obit from Aegis, Harford Co.

SKILLMAN,Gregory A.
Suddenly on February 14, 2000 GREGORY ALLAN beloved husband of Patricia A.Mulligan. Survived by Alchemy, Amulet, Mystic, Marvel, and Mello, loving son of William A. and Anne C. Skillman; dear son-in-law of Helen Mulligan; dear brother of Thomas Skillman and Karen Brash. Also survived by Grandma Widomski, Sarah, Eli, Jessica and family and friends.
A memorial service will be held at the Schimunek Funeral Home of BelAir, Inc., 610 West McPhail Road (at Route 24) on Saturday at 1 p.m. Interment private.

From a co-worker:
Greg Skillman In Memoriam by Tom Guidera
Published in the Newsletter of the American Society of Media Photographers, Balto. Chapter

Baltimore has lost one of its most experienced and gifted photographic
printers.Greg Skillman of K.C. Color Lab was killed in an automobile
accident on Tuesday, February 15, 2000.

Greg has been one of the truly outstanding color printers and laboratory
technicians in this area for more than twenty five years. He started at
the old Gordon Color Lab on Maryland Avenue, along with his longtime
counterpart Ken Collins, in 1974.

Ansel Adams’s observation that the negative is the score; the print is
the performance will have special meaning for the hundreds of
professional and amateur photographers alike who went to him with their
work because Greg was a virtuoso performer.

Those of us who got to know him well over the years enjoyed his wry,
joshing manner as much as we depended on him to 'read our minds' about
what we wanted him to do in a print or transparency. We took for granted
his dedication to the job, his vast “old school” knowledge, and his eye
for color and harmony. Greg made us all more professional. We are less
so without him.

And if we look for something to console us, we need look no further then
at our own portfolios, at the images on our clients’ walls, and at the
body of work that each of us will leave behind us for others to see.
Greg Skillman brought thousands and thousands of images to life for us.
He made our photographs sing. He had Social Security Number 220-66-6537. He was cremated.

Patricia Ann Mulligan (private).