Individual Details

Posted at findagrave.com: McKinney, Texas, March 8---Reburial services are to be held here at 3 p.m. Friday for T-4 Paul Skelton, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Frank Skelton. Skelton, born in McKinney April 17, 1926, was one of two victims of an ambush slaying near Nuernburg, Germany, on May 10, 1946. Following graduation from Boyd High school, where his father taught many years, he attended the University of Texas one year, entering the united States Army in July, 1941. After training at Fort Bliss, Camp Maxey at Paris and Fort Meade, Md., he went overseas in March, 1945, and was assigned to the Third Armored Infantry Division. He was in combat the last four weeks of the war. In January, 1946, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, moving near Nuernburg about a month prior to his death. Besides his parents he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Oliver Kite and Mrs. James Wilcox, both of Dallas; two brothers, Max Skelton with Associated Press in Houston and Thomas Skelton of Pomona, Calif. Following services, burial will be in Pecan Grove Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the 1943 graduating class of Boyd High School here.

Birth	17 Apr 1926	McKinney, Collin Co., Texas
Death	10 May 1946	Nuernburg, Germany
Burial		Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin Co., Texas

Father	Benjamin Franklin Skelton (1877 - 1952)
Mother	Annie Elizabeth Beck (1883 - 1969)
Sibling	Benjamin Franklin Skelton Jr (1911 - 1918)
Sibling	Mildred Allyene Skelton (1912 - 2014)
Sibling	William Thomas Skelton (1914 - 1957)
Sibling	Max Beck Skelton (1916 - 1992)
Sibling	Viola Mauryene Skelton (1918 - )