Lowell Dean Skeed

Lowell Dean Skeed passed away on Monday July 27, 2020 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St Louis. He was a former Trenton resident.
No services have been planned at this time. Arrangements are under the direction of the Price Funeral Home at Maryville.
Mr. Skeed was born on Aug. 22, 1945 to Louis A. and Mildred J. Calek Skeed in Maryville. His grandfather gave him the nickname Butch. Everyone in Clearmont and Maryville has known him by this name.
At an early age he began working part-time at various jobs, including Woolworth’s and Ward’s Drive-In. Also active in his youth at the First Baptist Church, he was a page at the Southern Baptist Convention.
He graduated from Maryville High School in 1963 and began college at Northwest Missouri State University in the fall. He enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving from 1964-1968. During his service he was stationed at the Ton Son Nhut Airforce Base in Vietnam.
On Dec. 30, 1967, he married his longtime sweetheart, Janet Gray, at Searcy, AR, where her parents were living at the time.
When released from his service contract, he joined his wife in Omaha, NE. There he began his life-long career with the U.S. Postal Service. Several years later, the Skeeds moved to Des Moines, IA, where he became a supervisor at the new bulk mail facility.
He continued his education at various universities as well as educational opportunities through the postal service.
In 1980 he applied and was appointed postmaster in Trenton, where he served 18 years. He became postmaster at Chillicothe in 1998, retiring from there in March 2001 after serving in the postal service for 34 years.
Mr. Skeed was active in various organizations as an adult, including president of United Way and PTA president at S.M. Rissler Elementary School in Trenton. He also served as an elder at the Hodge Presbyterian Church. Throughout his life he was active in Boy Scouts, both as a youth and as an adult, serving in leadership positions. While in Trenton he also coached girls basketball at the middle school level for several years. While living in Naples, FL, he had been on the board of one of the condo associations and served as landscaping chairman for two associations.
After retirement, the couple moved from Trenton to Osage Beach, where their family would enjoy visiting. He enjoyed the fishing, the golf, the new friends and the family visits.
Keeping their home in Osage Beach, they moved to Naples, where he not only enjoyed the warmer winters but also the addition of the new friends, golf and family visits. He added the newly-loved activities of shelling, beach walking and bocce.
He is survived by his wife of the home as well as three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Son Phil lives in Lee’s Summit with his wife, Dana and son, Brady. Grandson Blake lives in Kansas City with his wife, Maddie and his daughter, Charlotte. Daughter Suzanne Rohwer, her husband, Shawn and daughter, Madelyn, live in Independence. Daughter Amanda Davis, her husband, Mike and their four children, Alyssa, Colton, Grayson and Emmalyn, live in St. Joseph. He is also survived by two sisters, Marcia Beattie of Barnard and Gail Booth of Maryville.
Memorials may be made to Hodge Presbyterian Church at Trenton or The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.