Submitted by: Georgia Gill-Elkins

Skoving, Robert, Kemphill
 
South Bend Tribune July 18, 1983 p. 22
Joseph E. Skoving
Joseph E. Skoving, 80, of 427 Sugar Pine Drive, Mishawaka, died at 8:45 a.m. Sunday in Fountainview Place, after being ill the past month. He was employed with Bendix Corp, for 28 years, retiring in 1968. Born Sept. 8, 1902, in Czechoslovakia, he lived in South Bend since 1904, coming from there. On Nov. 1, 1927, in Goshen, he married Opal Roberts, who survives. He also is survived by a son, James W. of Griffith, Ind., and two grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William, with Rev. Kenneth R. Hemphill retried United Methodist minister, officiating. Interment will be in Riverview Mausoleum. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. He was a member of the First United Methodist church, Senior Citizens Club of the church, the Men's Club, 2 X 4 Club of Townhouse East and the American Association of Retired Persons.