1918
Verl
2014
Verl M. Skeels
May 30, 1918 — March 26, 2014
Verl M. Skeels
Age 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. He was born May 30, 1918, in Alsea, Oregon, to parents Lester and Alma Taylor Skeels. His maternal great-great grandfather was Elbridge Trask of Trask River fame. Verl spent his younger years in Lobster Valley, Oregon; later lived in Lebanon, Carlton, Peedee, and Independence, Oregon before settling with his family in a comfortable new home on the bank of the North Umpqua River on the back waters of the dam at Winchester. He started work at an early age, cutting firewood for a log-loader boiler at a logging camp near Tillamook. Thereafter, he found work cutting timber, working at the Lebanon Pulp and Paper Mill, owning and operating his own livestock farm, and eventually owning and operating his own very successful timber and logging business, Skeels Logging, for many years in the Douglas County area. He was well-known at the government timber-bidding sessions locally. For the past 6 years he had resided at Callahan Court in Roseburg. The family wishes to thank the staff of Callahan Court for their loving care of Verl in his last years.
Verl attended church faithfully with his family, in earlier years at the Church of Christ, later, for many years at Baptist churches, both elsewhere and in Roseburg. In his last years his sentiments seemed to return to his Church of Christ roots, but regardless of where he worshipped, he felt a deep conviction of the importance of the gospel.
Verl was preceded in death by his wife, Esther Lillian King; daughter, Karen Pinard, infant brother (stillborn), and a sister, Vivian Nusbaum.
Verl is survived by his son, Frederick, married to Patricia Scherner; daughter, Kathleen, married to Loren Stubbert; sister, Esther, married to Don Hendrix; nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and three great great-grandchildren.
There will be a viewing on Friday, April 4, 2014 from 10 a.m. - noon, at Wilson's Chapel of the Roses, with the memorial service to follow at 1 p.m. at The Chapel of the Roses. Interment to follow at Roseburg Memorial Gardens.
Age 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. He was born May 30, 1918, in Alsea, Oregon, to parents Lester and Alma Taylor Skeels. His maternal great-great grandfather was Elbridge Trask of Trask River fame. Verl spent his younger years in Lobster Valley, Oregon; later lived in Lebanon, Carlton, Peedee, and Independence, Oregon before settling with his family in a comfortable new home on the bank of the North Umpqua River on the back waters of the dam at Winchester. He started work at an early age, cutting firewood for a log-loader boiler at a logging camp near Tillamook. Thereafter, he found work cutting timber, working at the Lebanon Pulp and Paper Mill, owning and operating his own livestock farm, and eventually owning and operating his own very successful timber and logging business, Skeels Logging, for many years in the Douglas County area. He was well-known at the government timber-bidding sessions locally. For the past 6 years he had resided at Callahan Court in Roseburg. The family wishes to thank the staff of Callahan Court for their loving care of Verl in his last years.
Verl attended church faithfully with his family, in earlier years at the Church of Christ, later, for many years at Baptist churches, both elsewhere and in Roseburg. In his last years his sentiments seemed to return to his Church of Christ roots, but regardless of where he worshipped, he felt a deep conviction of the importance of the gospel.
Verl was preceded in death by his wife, Esther Lillian King; daughter, Karen Pinard, infant brother (stillborn), and a sister, Vivian Nusbaum.
Verl is survived by his son, Frederick, married to Patricia Scherner; daughter, Kathleen, married to Loren Stubbert; sister, Esther, married to Don Hendrix; nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and three great great-grandchildren.
There will be a viewing on Friday, April 4, 2014 from 10 a.m. - noon, at Wilson's Chapel of the Roses, with the memorial service to follow at 1 p.m. at The Chapel of the Roses. Interment to follow at Roseburg Memorial Gardens.
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