Charles "Chuck" Skarin

Blue Hill resident Charles "Chuck" I. Skarin 81, died Thursday January 7, 2010, at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings. Services are 2 p.m. Monday, January 11, 2010 at United Methodist Church in Blue Hill. with the Rev. Michael Lee Burgess and the Rev. Baldeo Singh officiating. Burial with military rites by A. L. Shirley Post #176 of Blue Hill will be in Blue Hill cemetery at Blue Hill. Visitation is 1-8 p.m. Sunday with family present 3-5 p.m., 9 a.m. to noon Monday at Merten-Butler Mortuary and one hour prior to services at the church. Memorials may be given to the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. Charles was born on March 24, 1928, to Elmer and Esther (Linn) at Kiron, Iowa in Ida County. He graduated from Arthur High School, Arthur, Iowa. He served in the United States Marine Corps form 1944-1949. On June 21, 1949, he married Marilyn M. Woods in Hastings, Nebraska. He worked at the Hastings NAD and the Hastings Post Office. He also owned C & M Answering Service and the 80 and 130 Taxi lines. He retired in 1978 and they moved to the Ozarks, returning to Blue Hill in 1986. He was a member of the Blue Hill United Methodist Church, A.L. Shirley Post #176, Blue Hill, NE., VFW and the Eagles in Hastings. He had also been Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias for the State of Nebraska. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn of Blue Hill, two sons, Terry and wife Mary of Glenvil, Ken and his wife Gerry of Blue Hill; two daughters, Rebecca Rouse of Aurora, Ne, Vicky (Terry) Bullock of Cozad; two brothers, Terry of Burleson, Texas, Boyd of Sioux City, Iowa; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, two sisters.