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Elmer Lauris Skipper
January 31, 2017
Elmer Lauris Skipper, age 71, of Cantonment, passed away with his family at his side Wednesday, January 25, 2017. He was born in Excel, AL on August 08, 1945, to the late Elmer Crawford and Sarah Elberta Skipper. Elmer graduated from Excel High School in 1963, after which he served two years in the U.S. Army. He was the youngest of four children. Friends and family knew him as “Snake Eye.” Elmer relocated to Pensacola in 1975, where in 1980, he married the love of his life, Charlotte. He retired after 34 years of service to Solutia in 2001.
Elmer was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Edna Earle Browning; and brothers, Marion Lee Skipper and Harold Thomas Skipper.
He is survived by his devoted wife Charlotte; children, Michael Tracy Long of Crestview, Jeffrey Lauris Long of Crestview, Staphanie Ann Jarman, and Greg Scott Skipper; grandchildren, Jason Kristian Jarman, Ian Scott Jarman and Kalleigh Ann Jarman; and many nieces, nephews and dear friends.
Special thanks to the physicians and nurses of Covenant Hospice for their comfort and care.
Visitation will be Wednesday, February 1, 2017, from 10:30 a.m. until the service begins at 11:30am at Faith Chapel Funeral Home North. Bro. Glenn Vaughn of Victory Assembly of God Church in Molino will officiate.
Interment with military honors will follow at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
Faith Chapel Funeral Home North is in charge of arrangements.
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My love and prayers go out to mrs.skipper greg stephanie and family mr skipper was a man of lots of wisdom and a father figure to me many others who knew him my fondess memories of the skippers house on elna rd was the baseball/football/basketball/ it didnt matter mr and mrs skipper welcomed us with southern hospitalty unless they worked the mean ole graveyard at the plant mr skipper was roll tide and loved to watch his baseball something i learned and practice with my kids mr skipper new how to get on kids level and talk to you weather he was getting on to you or spitting the wisdom or yanking your chain my name is Joey mathis and very blessed proud and appriecated to have known such man thank you mrs skipper greg stephanie for sharing the man roll tide