Ethel Lilian Beech Skinner

Ethel Lilian Beech Skinner
January 26, 1924 -June 25, 2013

Ethel Lilian Beech Skinner, 89, of Elm City passed away Tuesday.   Funeral services will be conducted 7 p.m. Thursday at Wilbanks Christian Church, 6128 NC Hwy 42 E, Elm City.   Interment will be conducted 11 a.m. Friday in Evergreen Memorial Park.   The Rev. Bobby White and Rev. Dwight Batts will officiate.

The family will receive friends 5:30 -6:45 p.m. Thursday prior to the service at Wilbanks Christian Church.

Lily and Junior were married for 55 years.   She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend; she will be missed and thought of often with wonderful memories and smiles that will touch the heart of her loved ones.   She loved her church and church family.   She served on the Board and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary.   Lily loved living life to its fullest: shopping, cooking, gardening and had many other interests.  

Ethel is survived by her daughters, Evonne S. Corbett and husband, Melvin of Elm City, Bridget S. Driver and husband, Mickey of Wilson, Patricia S. Webb and husband, Ronny of Macclesfield and Sheila Mae Skinner Banks and husband, Nelson of Elm City; her sons, David Skinner and wife, Debbie of Elm City and Darren Skinner and wife, Tora of Wilson; her grandchildren, Casey Littleton Skinner and wife, Stacey, Dustin Webb, Shannon Lilian Webb, Logan Greer Skinner, Kody Skinner Banks, Chad Parrish and wife, Ashley, Nicole Norville, Tiffany Wooten, Jerry Smith, Kala Durham and Bobby Jenkins; one great-grandchild, Parker Lamm; her sister, Nancy Rodgers of England; her sisters-in-law, Alice, Addie and Lily Beech, all of England, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Junior Littleton Skinner; her parents, John William Beech and Ethel Eaton Beech and her brothers, Kenneth, Leslie, Edwin and Jackie Beech.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Wilbanks Christian Church, 6128 NC Hwy 42 E, Elm City.

Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.