Nancy Carolyn Skelton

Nancy Carolyn English

71, a resident of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, went to be with her Lord, August 13, 2007 at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was born September 23, 1935 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the daughter of Everett and Eva Garisson Skelton.

She lived her life to exemplify Christ and to serve those she loved. She was a loving wife, mother, Nana and friend. She truly was an example of “The Proverbs 31 woman.”

Carolyn was preceded in death by her parents Everett and Eva Skelton, one sister, Marjorie Clinehens, her mother and father in-law George Roy and Jetta May Whitson English, two brothers-in-laws, Walter S. Freeman and Harold Cline, two sisters-in-law Billie Adams, and Tommie Grigson.

Survivors include her husband of fifty-two years, Roy Lee English of the home; one son, John R. English and wife Elizabeth of Manhattan, Kansas; one daughter, Nancy K. Hughes and husband Ray of Springdale, Arkansas; one sister, Ardith Freeman of North Little Rock, Arkansas; three granddaughters, Nancy Karen Hughes, Sara Marie English, and Grace Ann Hughes; two brothers in-law Brosie Grigson of Maumell, Arkansas, and Grover Adams of North Little Rock, Arkansas; seven nieces and eight nephews along with many loved ones and friends.