Eileen Skelton, 93, of Avon

Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at the First Baptist Church in Avon. Burial is in the Trinity Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Avon. Visitation will be an hour prior to services at the church.

Eileen Barbara Skelton was born July 17, 1920 on the home place two miles west of Avon, SD, the daughter of Chris and Rosella (Fischer) Wittmeier. She died Saturday, November 9, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Society in Tyndall, SD.

Eileen was baptized on July 17, 1921 at the German Presbyterian Church, which is now Trinity Presbyterian in Avon. She attended Mawhinney Country School through the eighth grade. She then attended Avon High School and graduated in 1938.

Eileen married Art Skelton in 1939 and moved to Texas. She was employed at Sears & Roebuck Co. in Dallas, TX. They moved to Wichita Falls and bought a coffee shop in an office building and operated it for six years. She then went back to work at Sears in Wichita Falls and worked for them for 25 years and retired in 1984. They moved back to Avon in 1990.

Eileen was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Thankful for having shared her life are her five sisters: Genevieve Kozel of Avon; Lorine Gandolfi of Burlingame, CA; Kalma Koenig of DeSoto, TX; Gudrun Schoenrogge of St Francis, KS; Shelia (Norman) Idlewine of West Port, IN; and brother, Clayton (Minnie) Wittmeier of Avon; sister-in-law, Marlene Wittmeier of Avon; and many nieces and nephews.

Eileen was preceded in death by her husband, Art on November 8, 1997; parents; four brothers: LeVern, Delbert (John), Russell and Eugene; two sisters-in-law: Viva Wittmeier and Verletta Wittmeier; and four brothers-in-law: Eugene Kozel, Frank Gandolfi, Ernie Koenig and Gilbert Schoenrogge.