Personal Life
His wife of 44 years, Susan Anding Skelton, died on August 23, 2005. Later that year, on November 26, Skelton was injured when a van carrying him and fellow U.S. Representatives Tim Murphy and Jim Marshall overturned near Baghdad Airport while on an official visit to Iraq. Skelton and Murphy were airlifted to a U.S. Military hospital in Germany after complaining of neck pain. Both made a full recovery.
On August 29, 2009, Skelton married Patty Martin, a longtime friend and widowed middle school counselor from his home town.
Skelton is an honorary chieftain in Scouting's Tribe of Mic-O-Say. He is also of distant relation to Daniel Boone as well as to U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter of New York.
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