Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York
• Census: 1940, Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York

Notes:

Gersion Skinner is a veteran of World War II; he was wounded at the battle of the Hürtgen Forest in Germany in october 1944. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 1952.

From Mount Vernon Daily Argus (1945): Gerson Skinner In Hospital
 Private First Class Gerson Skinner, twenty-two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick F. Skinner of 25 Pearl Street, who was wounded in the leg by German shell fragments in action in Germany, has been returned to the States and is a patient at the Army’s Thomas M. England General Hospital at Atlantic City.
 Private Skinner has had several operations on his leg and will have another soon. He was wounded last October near Cologne in the same little town from which his grandparents came. He wears the Purple Heart.
 While attending Davis High School he was employed for more than a year in the pressroom at the Daily Argus. Emplyes recently sent a box of goodies to him at the hospital.
 Private Skinner enlisted more than two years ago and trained in Georgie; Fort Mead, Md.; New Orleans, La.; Panama, Colorado and California.
 He saw action in Belgium, France and Germany.

Gerson married Kathleen Mary Elizabeth McGRATH on 20 Jul 1968 in New York. Kathleen (daughter of John McGRATH and Elizabeth KEOGH) was born on 24 Aug 1937 in Bronx, New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

R.M. married S. McMURTRIE [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]