Vilo Skidmore Obituary (2014)

Vilo Adams Skidmore passed away at her Grantsville residence on Friday afternoon , March 21, 2014. She was born on December 12, 1929 in Parowan, Utah to Ancel J. and Gertrude Decker Adams. She was raised with nine siblings and attended schools in Parowan. She then went to Cedar City, UT and attended the Branch Agricultural College (SUU). It was there that she met A. LeRoy Skidmore, Jr. They became good friends and soon after fell in love. LeRoy was called to serve an LDS mission, but not before he had asked Vilo to marry him. Soon after, Vilo also left for her own mission to Indiana. She returned home before he did and when he finally arrived, they wasted no time and were married in the St. George LDS Temple three weeks later on November 22, 1952. LeRoy was almost immediately called to serve his country in the United States Army. The couple lived in Ft. Lewis, WA, Anchorage, AK, and after the service in Logan,UT for schooling. LeRoy accepted a job teaching at Tooele High School and they moved to Tooele. Here they settled and raised their family. Vilo was an angel mother and spent her time teaching and nurturing their three children, Elizabeth, David and James. Later she worked at the school lunch and at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home. She always had a strong testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ and was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She served in many positions including Primary teacher and Relief Society president. She and LeRoy served a mission at the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. After her husband's death, she moved to Hyde Park, Ut, and then to Diamond Jane's in Grantsville. Vilo was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy, her parents, a sister. Maureen (John) Foster, brothers Bernarr Adams, Bryce Adams, Lorraine (Carmen) Adams, and brothers-in-law Willard Jones, Joe Lawrence, Seymour Nielsen and Sweeney Windchief. She is survived by her children, Elizabeth (Ron) Brown, David (Becky) Skidmore and James (Jane) Skidmore, as well as twelve grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Hardy (Dorothy) Adams, Trudy Jones, Spencer (Rita) Adams, Lloyd (Christine) Adams, and Sharon (Gary) Cupp, and sisters-in-law Madelyn Adams, Lovena Adams, Dorothy Lawrence, Aldean Nielsen, Muriel (Jim) Martin and Peggy (Garth) Mabey along with many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm, Wednesday March 26, 2014 at the Tooele Stake Center, 245 South 200 East. A viewing will be held prior to the service from 11:30 to 12:30 at the church. The family would like to extend a warm and genuine Thank You to the staff and nurses at Diamond Jane's. Their kind and tender, loving service to Mom will always be fondly remembered. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Vilo Adams Skidmore please visit our Sympathy Store.