1951 – 2024

It is with a great sense of loss and sadness that the family of Anne Cecilia Hull Skinnell must announce her passing due to kidney failure on Friday, July 26 in Glendale. Following several months of steadily declining health and multiple hospital stays, she was ultimately transferred to a hospice care facility where she passed quietly and peacefully with her husband Rob by her side. She was 73.

Anne was born to Hugh Hull and Dorothy Eagon Hull in Beloit, Kansas. After graduating from high school in Hays, Kansas, she attended a training institute for design. In 1971, Anne moved to California working initially for an insurance firm. After that, she worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, in the radiation department, ultimately becoming supervisor of the clerical staff in that department.

In 1973, she met Robert Skinnell and they were married in 1974; she resigned from her position at the hospital in 1977 to begin raising children. For the next 30 years, in addition to their own children Anne lovingly cared for a number of other young children with the Skinnell home as her base of operations.

Anne had a love of crafting and quilting but her most abiding activities were centered around helping other people. She was a fine cook and put her culinary skills into service for others. A former member of La Crescenta Presbyterian Church, for several years she ran the senior adult luncheon program there, providing once a month a warm, welcoming and wonderful meal to seniors from the community. Many years later, she worked tirelessly to provide meals for homeless people on the street.

Anne is survived by her husband of 50 years, Rob. She is also survived by her four adult children and their spouses and eight grandchildren: Heidi Wyckoff and Matthew and their children Madeline and Travis; Christopher and Kerri Skinnell and daughter Anya; Ryan and Charie Skinnell and daughters Sophia, Sydney and Shane; Geoffrey and Katrina Skinnell and daughters Gabrielle and Isabelle.

Anne’s surviving siblings include Linda Hull of Washington; Bruce Hull and Vicki of North Carolina; Mark Hull and Julie of California; Chris Hull of Kansas; and Mary Caballero and Raymond of Oregon.

Anne’s passing has left a very large empty space in the hearts of all her family and of her very dear friends; she will be greatly missed. There will be no public service for Anne, but rather a gathering of family and friends to celebrate her life.

In lieu of flowers, it was Anne’s request that donations in her memory be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital through the following website: http://fundraising.stjude.org/goto/AnneSkinnell.