Eighth Generation


2634. Willis Allen Skillman was born in 1869. He died on 2 February 1933 at the age of 64 at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI. William Skillman, age 62, died Tuesday in Blodgett hospital. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Jennie Wagner, of Chicago and a nephew, Michael Fitzgerald of this city. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the O'Brien Brothers funeral home. Interment in Greenwood cemetery. He was buried on 5 February 1933 at Greenwood Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Kent, MI.

Willis Allen Skillman and Viola Ponley were married on 6 September 1904 in Chicago, Cook, IL. Viola Ponley, daughter of Benjamin N. Ponley and Lydia Willnot, was born in 1877.