W.C. and Doris Thomas Skinner -- Construction Supervisor and Deputy Court Clerk

 

W.C. Skinner

Doris Thomas Skinner

Wallace Clarence “W.C.” Skinner was born on February 6, 1925 in the Donaldson Creek community of Trigg County, Kentucky.   He was the fourth of six children born to Walter Calvin Skinner and Lona Mae Thomas Skinner.  HIs parents were both natives of Trigg County and Calvin worked in farming, carpentry and bridge construction.  Lona was a descendant of Perry Thomas. W.C.’s siblings were Mavis Pauline Skinner, born in 1918 and married Eston Mitchell Bridges; Sammy Virginia Skinner, born in 1920 and married Charles Jackson Taylor and later married Woodford M. Collier; Lacey Haywood Skinner, born in 1922 and married Margaret Hazel Williams; Noble Franklin Skinner, born in 1927 and married Winnie Pearl Hunter; and Beulah Christine Skinner, born in 1926 and married Billy Ray Adams.

W. C. married Doris Jean Thomas on March 19, 1948 in Piggott, Arkansas.  Doris was born on January 31, 1931 in Trigg County, Kentucky.  She was the youngest of four children born to Eura Wesley Thomas and Lucy Pearl Lawrence Thomas.   They were both natives of Trigg County.  Eura Wesley was a prominent Trigg County farmer and a descendant of Starkie Thomas.  Doris’ siblings were Ivy Elizabeth Thomas, born in 1915 and married Charles Edward Rogers; Leslie Edward Thomas, born in 1918 and died at the age of 4; and Virginia Dare Thomas, born in 1923 and married Rumsey Holt “Pete” Alexander.

Doris attended Trigg County schools and graduated from Trigg County High School in 1948.  While a student in high school, she worked at the White Eagle Restaurant and at the Red Front Grocery Store in downtown Cadiz.  After she and W.C. were married, they moved to Akron, Ohio.  In Akron, W.C. worked as a salesman for the Serv-Ice Delivery Company.  After one year, they returned to Trigg County Back in Kentucky, W.C. worked as a supervisor for the John Woodruff Construction Company, worked with the A. Z Farley Construction Company and as a General Superintendent of Edro Coal Mine for the Jim R. Smith Contracting Company.  After his retirement from construction, W.C.  operated the W.C. & D. Locksmith Company for many years.

In 1958. Doris began work as the Deputy Circuit Court Clerk for Trigg County.  She served in this position until 1973.  In 1974. She became the Chief Deputy in the Trigg County Court Clerk’s office, a position she served for 16 years until her retirement in December of 1989.

W.C. and Doris were the parent of three sons, Stephen Allen Skinner, born in 1952 and married Jacqueline Lee Witty and later married Cynthia Ann Bruner Orem; Robert Clarence Skinner, born in 1953 and married Nancy Lou Birdsong and later married Linda Diane Oakley Taylor; and Randall Scott Skinner, born in 1956 and married Marisa Corinne Riley. 

Doris died on May 18, 2000 at the age of 69 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz.  She was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.  W.C. died on December 10, 2016 at the age of 91 in the Shady Lawn Nursing Home in Cadiz.  He was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery next to his wife.

W.C. and Doris tombstone

LINEAGE: (Wallace Clarence “W.C” Skinner was the son of Walter Calvin and Lona Mae Thomas Skinner and the grandson of James Hervey and Cora Effie Futrell Thomas. James Hervey was the fourth child of Rufus King and Alvie Adeline Dunn Thomas.  Rufus King was the fifth child of Perry and Elizabeth Josephine Bridges Thomas.  Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)

(Doris Jean Thomas was the daughter of Eura Wesley and Lucy Pearl Lawrence Thomas and the granddaughter of Wesley Gunn and Eliza L. Henderson Thomas.  Wesley Gunn was the sixth child of Stanley and Emily Ann Light Thomas.  Stanley was the second child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas.  Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)