E. Morgan Skinner Jr. made a transfer from this sphere of existence to the next sphere of existence, Sunday evening June 15, 2025. Morgan, as he was known by all who knew him, was born Sunday, April 28, 1940, in Logan Utah, the first child of Earnest Morgan Skinner and Mabel Clarinda Peterson Skinner.
Morgan attended grade school in Grace and Georgetown Idaho and graduated from Montpelier High School, Montpelier Idaho, in 1958, where he was on the football team. During the summers he helped on the family farm in Nounan, with the chores, milking cows, stacking hay and all the other farm-related chores that needed to be done. During his senior year he also presented the school news on radio station KBRV in Soda Springs, his introduction to radio work.
After high school Morgan’s family moved from the farm in Nounan to Mesa, Arizona. He had requested to stay in Idaho and work at the radio station in Soda Springs. In the spring of 1960, Morgan accepted a call to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Brazil South Mission. While serving in the Brazil South Mission, his time in radio at KBRV, allowed him to assist with producing the Spoken Word radio program in a foreign language.
From his beginnings in radio and after he returned home, from his mission, Morgan went on working in radio for the rest of his adult life, from KMUR in Murray, Utah and on to the Bonneville Corporation working in New York and Los Angeles, ending up in St George Utah where he lived with his bride Lorna, until the time of his transfer. Because of his radio work with news, he was a stickler for accuracy, in the details of news reports which carried over into the rest of his personal life.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he actively served in various callings throughout his life.
Morgan is preceded in his transfer by his parents, Earnest & Mabel Skinner, and his brother Charles.
He is survived by his bride, Lorna; siblings Stephen (Marlene), Shauna Clark (Virgil – d-2016), Joel (Janell), David (Janis), and Dan (Laura); sister-in-law Vicki (Charles – d-2014); daughters Suzanne Richardson (Matt), Elizabeth (Liz) Davis, Jenifer Sandall (Rich), Diane Bate Stoker (Kevin), Barbara Bate Dillman, Janet Bate Merkley (Ken); sons Earnest III (Kelly), Ryan, and Aaron (Mary), Jeff Bate, and Robert Bate; 31 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held at Tonaquint Cemetery, 1777 S Dixie Dr, St George, Utah. Interment to follow. Arrangements are being handled by Affordable Funerals and Cremations 157 E Riverside Dr Ste 3A, St George, Utah.