Peggy Jane Skeens Ullom

PEGGY JANE SKEENS ULLOM passed away on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Her graveside memorial service will be held on Friday, April 10, 2015, at 1 p.m. in Spring Valley Memory Gardens. Peggy was a Christian, having been baptized for the remission of sins, in Twelve Pole Creek in 1943. She was a member of the Ceredo Church of Christ. She was born on November 5, 1927, to the late William Clinton and Effie Perdue Skeens and was a 1946 graduate of Buffalo High School. She managed the music stand in McCrory's, later running her own highly successful music business in Silver's. Peggy sold her business to devote her time to her family, and years later, embarked upon a second career as a cashier at B&B Food Market until its closing in 1987. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, her one and only Carney; sisters Marian Osburn and Betty Billups; brother William C. Skeens Jr.; and great-nephew Darrell Lee Vanhoose. Surviving her are her son David, with whom she made her home; her son Danny Ullom; her daughter Jeanne Ann Ullom; former daughter-in-law Rebecca Bookwalter (Robert); grandson Travis Bookwalter; grandson of her heart, Ben Bookwalter; great-granddaughter Camryn Bookwalter; sister-in-law Lee Skeens; niece Vicki Cartmel (Tom); nephew Dr. W. Michael Skeens (Joyce); former nephew by marriage, Darrell Vanhoose; great-nieces Amanda Jones (Jeremy), Katelynn Menshouse (Justin), Suzanne Smith, Jacqueline Elkins and Jennifer Skeens; great-nephew Clinton Skeens; great- great-nieces Tabitha and Carleigh Smith; great- great-nephew Benjamin Elkins; beloved cousins Patty Lewis (Rodney), Billie Simmons (Bearl), Bea Skeens (Lee Nagel), Polly Smith and Marie Wright (Don); dear family members Judy and Gary Akers, Beverly Billups, Hazel Billups, Jim and Pat Billups and Helen Webb; and a very special niece Molly Osburn (Ed Wickliffe), great-niece Elizabeth Goff (Glenn), great- great-nephew Christopher Goff, and great- great-niece Kayla Goff. In addition to her church family, she is also survived by special friends from the old neighborhood, Kenny and Wilma Bland, Riley and Margaret Stone and Don Harris; and from the B&B, Paula Black (Baxel), Pat Cornwell (Brenda), and her dear "twin sister," Hazel Watkins. Rollins Funeral Home in Kenova is assisting the Ullom family. Online condolences may be expressed at www.rollinsfh.com.