INSKEEP, DELBERT S. "SKIP" - Baxter County, Arkansas | DELBERT S. "SKIP" INSKEEP - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Delbert S. "Skip" INSKEEP

Galatia Cemetery
Baxter County,
Arkansas

Born April 19, 1910, Wessington Springs, Jerauld County, South Dakota.
Died October 23, 2002, Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Son of George William & Minnie Ethel Jones Inskeep.
First Wife: Oleta M. Inskeep.
Married (2) Mrs. Myram Torrance Lackey, March 6, 1937, Norfork, Baxter County, Arkansas.

The Baxter Bulletin
October 25, 2002

A funeral for Delbert 'Skip; Inskeep, 92, of Salesville will be 2PM Saturday at Old Galatia Church at Norfork with the Rev. Doug Huskey officiating. Visitation will be from noon-9PM at Roller Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 6-8PM. Mr. Inskeep died Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at Auburn Hills Health Care.
Mr. Inskeep was born April 19, 1910, at Wessington Springs, SD, to George William and Minnie Ethel Jones Inskeep. He moved to the area in 1932, from Plano, Iowa, and married Myram Torrance on March 6, 1937, at Norfork. He worked in construction in his younger days following the building of dams. Some of the many he worked on included Bull Shoals Dam, Lake Norfork Dam; Canyon Ferry Montana Dam, Davis Dam in Arizona, dams in Texarkana and Claremore, OK, St. Lawrence Seaway in New York, Lawton Dam at Cincinnati, and several locks and dams along the Arkansas River. Later in life, he worked as a carpenter in construction. He served on the Salesville City Council for 13 years and enjoyed vegetable gardening.
He is survived by one son, Dale Gene Inskeep of Mt. Home; one daughter, Shirley C. Vines of Salesville; one sister Lois Shultz of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 14 grandchildren; several great grandchildren; and several great great grandchildrean; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, three sisters, three sons and one stepson.
Memorials may be made to Diabetes Association.
Arragements by Roller Funeral Home.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)

(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 12/15/09 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 12/15/09 • Approved: 3/4/12 • Last Updated: 8/14/12 • R269656-G0-S3

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