Marjorie Opel Druen Skaggs, a former resident of Sunrise Manor Nursing Home in Hodgenville, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 at her daughter’s home in Munfordville.
She was born in Magnolia on March 28, 1926 to the late Leslie and Maude Nunn Skaggs. Marjorie was a homemaker and caregiver and a member of the Leitchfield Crossing Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband Carnegie Skaggs, a son Calvin Hulette “CH” Skaggs and by five sisters Lillian “Mick” Skaggs, Goldie Burba, Bernice Parker, Delsie Mae Druen and Doris Ann “Tootie” Gardner.
Marjorie is survived by her children-Patty Reynolds and her husband Jerry of Munfordville,
Jim Skaggs & his wife Kay of Owensboro, Sharon Taylor & her husband Neil of West Valley City, Utah
and Patrick Skaggs of Elizabethtown.; one sister Virgie Walters of Elizabethtown; one half-sister Wanda Goins of Hodgenville and one half- brother David Fulks of Madisonville; 8 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, two great-great grandchildren, several nieces & nephews and two special friends Barbara “Brownie” Bridgeman and Edith Hawkins.
Funeral services for Marjorie Skaggs will be 1pm Monday, Oct. 5 in the chapel of Sego Funeral Home with burial in the Hammonsville Three Forks of Bacon Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 2-8pm and after 8am Monday at the Sego Funeral Home. In leiu of flowers, donations may be given to the Leitchfield Crossing Baptist Church, c/o Jamie Tabor, 5273 Munfordville Rd., Sonora, KY 42776 or to Hart of Autism P.O. Box 84, Munfordville, KY 42765.
