Jeanne Rowe Skinner
First Lady of Guam
In role
September 17, 1949 – April 22, 1953
GovernorCarlton Skinner
Personal details
Born(1917-04-01)April 1, 1917
Marshalltown, Iowa
DiedApril 19, 1988(1988-04-19) (aged 71)
Palo Alto, California
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseCarlton Skinner
Children3
OccupationU.S. Navy officer, First Lady of Guam
Other namesJeanne Dorothy Rowe, Jeanne Rowe, Ensign Jeanne Rowe, Jeanne R. Skinner, Jeanne Skinner
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Navy
RankLieutenant

Jeanne Rowe Skinner (1917-1988) was an American Navy officer and former First Lady of Guam.

Early life

On April 1, 1917, Skinner was born as Jeanne Dorothy Rowe in Marshalltown, Iowa. Skinner's father was George Lewis Rowe (1889-1975). Skinner's mother was Marie Henrietta (nee Franz) Rowe (1892-1977). Skinner had one sister, Virginia Robertson Rowe (1913-2009). In 1940, Skinner lived with her parents in Lancaster, Nebraska.[1][2][3]

Education

Skinner earned a degree from University of Nebraska. Skinner was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and a member of Pi Lambda Theta honorary society.[1][2]

Career

Skinner served as an officer (ensign and lieutenant) in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), a woman's branch of the United States Navy Reserve. Skinner worked in the Public Relations division of the U.S. Navy Department in Washington, D.C. and in New York.[1][2]

In 1949, when Carlton Skinner was appointed by President Harry S. Truman as the Governor of Guam, Skinner became the First Lady of Guam on September 17, 1949, until April 22, 1953.[4]

Personal life

On May 1, 1943, Skinner married Carlton Skinner at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Harvison Catlin Holland, her sister and brother-in-law, in Dayton, Ohio. They had three children, Franz, Andrea, and Barbara. They also had a Dalmatian named Lilu’okalani. [1][4][5][6]

In 1943, Skinner and her husband lived in an apartment on Twentieth Street in Washington D.C.[1] In 1949, Skinner and her family moved Guam.[4] In the 1950s to 1960s, Skinner lived in Belvedere, California.

After Skinner's divorce, in 1967, her ex-husband married Solange Petit, a French anthropologist.[4]

Skinner died on April 19, 1988, at the Veteran Medical Center in Palo Alto, California; she is interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.[2][7]

See also

  • Margaret Chung, a member of Navy's Women's Advisory Council which pushed Public Law 689

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ensign Jeanne Rowe Bride Of Lieut. Carleton Skinner". newspapers.com. The Lincoln Star. May 1, 1943. Archived from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Obituary - Jeanne R. Skinner". The Marin Independent Journal. April 23, 1988. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
  3. ↑ "Jeanne Rowe in the 1940 Census". ancestry.com. 1940. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Governor Carlton Skinner". guampedia.com. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Skinner, Carlton (b. 1913)". Archived from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
  6. ↑ "Carlton Skinner's survivors include son, daughter". sfgate.com. January 26, 2012. Archived from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
  7. ↑ "Jeanne Rowe Skinner". findagrave.com. 1988. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
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