Alice Mildred Skinner

1905 - 1996  (91 years)

• Name	Alice Mildred Skinner  [1]
  Birth	26 Mar 1905	Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Oct 1996	Riverside, Riverside Co, California   [2, 3]
  Burial	1 Nov 1996	Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I98	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Leonard E Skinner,   b. 29 Jun 1875, Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri d. Abt 1952 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Ethel Campbell Powell,   b. Abt 1880   d. Abt 1975, Colorado (Age ~ 95 years)
  Marriage	15 Jun 1904	Bevier, Macon Co, Missouri   [6]
  	LE Skinner was of Clarence, Shelby County, Missouri and Ethel Powell was of Bevier, Macon County, Missouri. The marriage took place in the bride's home.
  Family ID	F161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Orville Dale Cooley,   b. 5 Apr 1903, Plainview, Pierce Co, Nebraska d. 12 May 1994, Riverside, Riverside Co, California (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	11 Jul 1926	Otis, Washington Co, Colorado   [7, 8]
  Children	1. Robert Leonard Cooley,   b. 25 Jan 1933, Otis, Washington Co, Colorado d. 14 Nov 2013, Menifee, Riverside Co, California (Age 80 years)   2. Living
  Family ID	F26	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Alice Mildred Skinner was born 26 Mar 1905 in Clarence, Shelby County. Missouri to Leonard and Ethel Skinner. She started school there but in 1916 the family moved to Lafayette, Colorado and then a year later to Otis, Colorado. Mildred finished high school in Otis, graduating in 1923. In the fall of 1923 Mildred entered Colorado Teacher's College (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colo. She majored in education and in two years received a Life Certificate to teach. She married Orville Dale Cooley on 11 July 1926. They had attended high school together but they had never dated until after graduation. The marriage lasted 68 years. The started her teaching career in Haxtun, Colo., in the fall of 1926 keeping her marriage secret because women teachers were not allowed to be married and teach in the Haxtun school system. Meantime, her husband, Dale, attended Denver University in pursuit of a journalism degree. In 1927 Dale and Mildred returned to Otis where they both taught in Otis schools for the next six years. They had two children, Robert Leonard born at Otis on 25 Jan 1933 and Jill Irene born in Akron, Colo., 17 Jul 1935. On 15 Feb 1937 the family moved to Limon, Colo., where he and his cousin, Ronald Cooley, assumed operation of the Limon Leader newspaper. Mildred became bookkeeper for the newspaper and she also sold advertising and was Social Editor. In 1941 she was one of the first organizers of the Colorado Press Women and served in 1943 as the state treasurer. Mildred belonged to the Mayflower Order of the Eastern Star, the Limon Women's Golf Club, the Thursday Bridge Club, the Colorado Education Association, the National Education Association (serving as Colorado's representative for improving public relations). In the fall of 1953 Mildred started her second career in teaching. At 48 years of age she returned to the Limon Public Schools. She also attended evening and summer school and in 1962 attained her A.B. degree at the age of 57. She continued to teach in the Limon schools until she retired at the age of 66. She was also an amateur artist beginning this pursuit in her 70's. For several years she and her sister, Irene, cared for their ailing parents in Limon and for the last several years of Dale's life (whose health had seriously deteriorated) she was a constant caretaker and companion where they lived first in Colorado Springs, Colo, then in Riverside, Calif. (Research):Clarence is a town in Shelby County, Missouri, United States. The population was 813 at the 2010 census. Shelby County is located in northeast Missouri in the United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county's population was 6,373. Its county seat is Shelbyville. The county was organized January 2, 1835 and named for Governor Isaac Shelby of Kentucky.

  
  

• Sources

  [S248] Daniel Berton Cooley, FHN. [S292] United States Government data, Social Security app, (Ancestry.com, database online, Provo UT, 2015), SSN 524381003 claim date 6 Jan 1970 (Reliability: 3). [S5] Limon Leader - Mildred, (7 Nov 1996), Obituary, The Limon Leader, 7 Nov 1996 Death (Reliability: 3). [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Memorial ID 78083100 (Reliability: 3). [S399] Daniel Berton Cooley in 2003, DBC Pershing observation, 2003 Photo (Reliability: 3). Alice Mildred Skinner and Orville Dale Cooley [S790] Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City MO, MO marriages, (Ancestry.com database online Provo UT 2007), Page 394: LE Skinner and Ethel Powell (Reliability: 3). [S771] State of Colorado, Division of Vital Statistics, Colo marriages, (Ancestry.com. Colorado, U.S., Select County Marriages, 1863-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020. ), State of Colorado Marriage license #1560 (Reliability: 3). [S47] Limon Leader - Dale, (Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado, 1994), Dale dates (Reliability: 3).