Wilfred "Will" John Skinner

Wilfred John Skinner was born on March 8, 1927 in Seattle, Washington. He was the only child of Victor Skinner of Osage, Iowa and Emma Henry of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. His father and mother both died in the early 1960s in Seattle. He has no surviving relatives. Will grew up in Olympia, his father being part of the WA state legislature during Will's childhood. He graduated from Olympia High in 1945 and joined the Army that same year. During the waning days of WWII he served in a medical laboratory in Texas. Will attended the University of Washington as a music major and received his master's degree in music in 1952.He worked for many years both for the Seattle Library as a librarian and also as a music coordinator for the Seattle School district where he transposed music for the

band programs.

Brother Skinner had his first contact with Jehovah's Witnesses when he began reading the Watchtower publications in the public library in the early 1960s. Will always considered his greatest moment was when he began studying the Bible with Brother Robert Folks and was baptized at a Circuit Assembly in Puyallup, WA on March 12, 1988. He was appointed as a ministerial servant shortly after and then as a congregation elder. He served as an elder in the Seattle Central congregation for 22 years, as the Theocratic School Overseer and later as the Congregation Secretary.

Brother Wil Skinner will be greatly missed as an astute historian and Bible student, for his love of music, his quiet, kind and humble personality, and for his loving support of the brothers and sisters in his congregation.Words of comfort may be expressed for Wilfred Skinner's family by clicking on the Tributes tab just below his name.