Mrs. Eunice Sanders Skinner

July 27, 1908 - June 28, 2015

Mrs. Eunice Sanders Skinner, 106, passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2015, at Connected Heart Personal Care Home in Gulfport. Mrs. Eunice was born July 27, 1908, in Kennedy, AL, the daughter of the late Willis Lee and Alice Ashcraft Sanders. She was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Skinner attended high school in Kennedy, Alabama, and graduated Nurses Training at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa at age 18 and never looked back. Mrs. Skinner moved to West Point with her husband and daugther in 1932 and spent much of her life in service to the people of West Point, whom she dearly loved. She was an avid hobbyist gardener, frequently donating roses for floral displays at local churches, and many a resident of West Point may recall her as a virtual fixture in her yard at her home on Brame Avenue, happily working for long hours among her roses and vegetables in a wide-brimmed straw hat. In retirement she spoke most fondly of her many years of nursing under employer and dear friend Dr. Thomas N. Braddock. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband John Edward Skinner on February 16, 1985, and by her brothers Osie S. Sanders and Lummy F. Sanders and her sister Vaudine Landess; her son-in-law James N. Bounds and by her much beloved niece Nancey Landess Gideon. Funeral services will be Friday, July 3, 2015, at 11:00 A.M. from Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Ben Yarber officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in West Point. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include Her Daughter, John Effie Bounds of Gulfport; Four Grandchildren; Terry Bounds (June) of Biloxi, Kathy Bounds Tujague (Marcel) of Bogalusa, LA, Dr. Jeff Bounds of Cambridge, MA, and Eddie Bounds (Rina) of Killeen, TX; One Great Grandson; Robert Bounds of Jackson; Niece: Mary Lou Flowers of Gainesville, FL; and her Nephews: Dr. Elmer Landess (Bessie) of Clarksdale and Joe Landess (Eva) of Ooltewah, TN. Pallbearers will be Terry Bounds, Kathy Tujague, Jeff Bounds, Eddie Bounds, Marcel Tujague, Robert Bounds, and Rina Bounds. Honorary Pallbearers will be Greg Sullivan and the Staff of Connected Heart Personal Care Home, Staff of Pinnacle Hospice, Staff of St. Joseph’s Hospice, and Dr. T.N. Braddock. Memorials may be made to Faith Baptist Church, 1834 East Churchill Road, West Point, MS 39773. Visitation will be Friday 10:00-11:00 A.M. at Calvert Funeral Home.