Joseph Skinner, 72; civic leader, was real estate executive in Boston GROTON – Joseph Churchill Skinner, 72, of Groton, who or nearly 40 years was a real estate executive in Boston, died of leukemia Monday in Nashoba Community Hospital here after a year-long struggle.
A former executive vice president of the real estate firm of Meredith & Grew, Mr. Skinner also had been a vice president of the Greater Boston Realty Board and former president of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors and a director of the National Association of Realtors.
A longtime leader in the business and civic life of Newton and Groton, he had formerly lived in West Newton.
A native of Boston, he grew up in Wellesley Hills and graduated from the Huntington School. He attended Bowdoin College and earned a bachelor’s and master’s in litterature and poetry at Cambridge University in England. He also attented the London School of Economics.
Mr. Skinner was a writer and editor with the old Boston Evening Transcript for five years, including a year as a correspondent in prewar London.
He joined the real estate firm of Walter D. Channing Inc. in 1941 and then left on naval service as a lieutenant in The Philippines; he resumed his duties with Channing after the war and later became president.
When the company merged with the firm of Meredith and Grew Inc. in 1960, Mr. Skinner became a partner and executive vice president there, a post he held 19 years. While there he handled all phases of commercial and industrial real estate and had been an adviser in real estate for North-eastern University and Boston University.
Mr. Skinner had been active in West Newton and, after retirement, in Groton. He was a trustee of various institutions including the Rivers School, Lasell Junior College, the First Unitarian Society of Neton, Roxbury INstitution for Savings and Bay Bank Middlesex.
He also had been a director for the All-Newton Music School, the Greater Boston YMCA and Bellofram Corp., a manufacturing firm.
In Groton, Mr. Skinner was a member of the Water Company, the Conservation Trust, the Growth Policy Committe, the Capital Planning Committe, the Nashoba Community Hospital Board of Trustees and the First Parish Church Unitarian and other organizations. He leaves his wife, Jeanne (Fisher); two daughters, Susan S. Gordon of Groton and Judith S. Bruggemann of Rochester Hills, Mich.; a son, Richard G. Skinner of Marion; and three grandsons.
A memorial service will be held Saturday au 11 a.m. in the First Parish Church Unitarian, Groton.
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Annoucement of Fisher – Skinner Wedding, Oct. 8 1937. Announcement has been made of the marriage next month of Miss Jeanne Southworth Fisher, daughter of Mrs. Irving Jewell Fisher of West Newton and the late Dr. Fisher, to Mr. Joseph Churchill Skinner, son of Mrs. John Meehan of Wellesley Hills and the late Dr. Roy Skinner. Miss Fisher will have five bridesmaids: Miss Barbara Olldrten, Miss Hannah Coffin. Mrs. Frederic P. Kimball. Mrs. Louville F. Nlles and Miss Jane Burgess of Wellesley Hills.
The 8 o’clock ceremony, which will be held October 8 at the Unitarian Church of West Newton, will be performed by Rev. Herbert Hitchen. A reception will be held at the Brae Burn Country Club following the ceremony.
Robert G. Fisher, brother of the bride-to-be, will give her in marriage and will be Mr. Skinner’s best man as well. The ushers will include Louville F. Nlles. Frederic P. Kimball. John C. Oalazy, Charles H. McKenney, Hamilton Thornquist.
and Theodore S. Jones of Wellesley Hills.
Miss Fisher was graduated from the Beaver Country Day School and from Bennett Junior College. Mr. Skinner attended Bowdoin College, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge University (England) In 1936. He is a member of the Cambridge Union, The Maugus Club and the Wellesley Country Club.
— From The Townsman, Wellesley, Mass., Friday September 24, 1937.
1913 - 1985 (72 years)
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. Judith Hall SKINNER, b. 30 Oct 1940, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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