Fred Skipper Obituary
Wellford, SC
Fred T.C. Skipper, 91, passed away on Thursday, December 05, 2024. Born in Polk County, NC, he was the son of the late Alfred Lee and Minnie Mae Pettit Skipper and the husband of the late Ruth Sherbert Skipper.
Survivors include two sons, Donnie Skipper and wife, Wanda, and Rickey Skipper and wife, Monika; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by a daughter, Judy Ruth McKinney; a grandson, Freddie Skipper; four brothers, James Skipper, William Skipper, Alfred Skipper and Romeo Skipper; and five sisters, Lora Thompson, Willie Burgess, Lou "Nettie" Epley, Arbutus Foster and Agnes Seay.
Funeral services will be held at 11AM on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at Stribling Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 10AM until 11AM prior to the service. Interment will be at Fort Prince Memorial Gardens.
Condolences may be made at www.stribingfuneralhome.net
Stribing Funeral Home
Duncan, SC
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Jennifer Smith
July 1, 2025
I´m so sorry I´m just now finding this out today. I have nothing but beautiful memories of you MAMAW. The woman who was the matriarch of our family the glue that kept us all together, the one who gathered us at her Sunday meals and prayed with us. Papa was the one that showed us how to make gardens. And if you listen closely always give you a beautiful message and all of his memories Christmases will always be fondly remembered, and the smell of your home when my grandmother. Did the cooking you loved so much. I will treasure my baby pictures of you and I forever. Meet you in heaven. I love you Jennifer Smith, your granddaughter by Judy R McKinney.
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