Ellen Marie Skowron

Graveside Funeral Services for Ellen Skowron will be held on January 15, 2002 at 1:30 pm at Orem City Cemetery in Orem, UT with Bishop Evan Schmutz officiating. There will be a family gathering at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hillcrest 8th Ward in Orem prior to burial.

Ellen Marie Sorensen Skowron, 89, died January 11, 2002 in Worland, WY at the home of her granddaughter, Ilka (Kevin) Curtis. She was born on March 10, 1912 in Aalborg, Denmark, daughter of Juliana Margaret Jensen and Christian Sorenson. At the age of 1 she came to the United States, through Ellis Island. She was raised in South Dakota and attended school there. As a young woman she moved to Chicago where she met and married Sigmund Walter Skowron on July 27, 1940. They moved to Mesa, AZ, where they raised their family. Sigmund died on September 1, 1976. Ellen was very active in politics. She was president of the Women’s Democratic Club, League of Women Voters, in Mesa, an election judge several times and a voter registrar for many years. She ran the Mesa hospital gift shop and was on the hospital auxiliary and scholarship board. She was also a reporter for the Apache Sentinel Newspaper.

Ellen loved to read, travel and correspond with friends. She would make a write-up of each trip and send copies to family and friends. She was proud to say she was able to visit almost every country.

She was an active member of the Mesa Lutheran Church where she taught Sunday School for over 30 years. She moved to Provo, UT in November of 1992 to be near her son. After recent ill health, she came to Ten Sleep to be with her daughter.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband, 3 sisters, 2 brothers, and 2 brothers-in-law.

She is survived by one son Paul L. (Christine Peay) Skowron of Orem, UT, and one daughter Judith Joy (Dale) Lyman of Ten Sleep, one sister Lillian Rice of Eden Prairie, MN, 6 grandchildren and 4 great-grandsons one sister-in-law Connie Sorensen of WI and one brother-in-law Vernon Barck of SD.