Ethel
Skime, 83
Roseau
- Ethel Skime, 83, died Tuesday, September 4,
2001 at the Roseau Area Hospital.
Funeral
services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September
8, at Messiah Lutheran Church in Roseau.
Casketbearers were David Morrow, Mollie Heikkila,
Lara Skime, Randi Radesic, Eric Skime and Jeri
Marie Skime. Interment was in Spruce Cemetery in
Roseau with Helgeson Funeral Chapel of Roseau in
charge of the arrangements.
Ethel
Elizabeth Nordvall was born on December 16, 1917 in
Roseau, the daughter of Erick and Olga (Nasland)
Nordvall. She grew up and attended school in the
Minnesota Hill area of Roseau county. She graduated
from Roseau High School in 1937. Ethel worked as a
bookkeeper at a seed plant and also at Lee's store
in Wannaska.
On
June 6, 1940, she was united in marriage to
Clifford Skime at Minnesota Hill. The lived in
Plummer, Lake Bronson and Wannaska. In 1952, they
moved to Roseau. In addition to homemaking and
raising their children, Ethel worked with Clifford
at the creamery as a bookkeeper. For the past five
and one-half years, she had traveled to Bemidji
frequently for dialysis.
She
was active at Messiah Lutheran Church where she
taught Sunday school and release time classes and
belonged to MWELCA and circles. She was also a
member of the Eventide and hospital auxiliaries,
WCTU and was a Cub Scout den mother.
Ethel
enjoyed quilting and the arts.
Survivors
include her husband, Clifford of Roseau; a
daughter, Angela (Bill) Morrow of Minneapolis; two
sons, Larry (Judy) Skime of Oxnard, Calif. and
David (Kay) Skime of Thompson, Manitoba, Canada;
six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and
two sisters, Rubie Keller of Russellville, Ark. and
Lillian Chess of Port Orchard, Wash.
Ethel
was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Arden;
and three brothers, Gustav, Carl and
Uno.
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