Timothy Terrance Skeldon

Timothy Terrance Skeldon of Bedford, Texas, died on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at home, aged 77. Tim was born in San Antonio, Texas, to the late John Robert and Elsie (Schilo) Skeldon on December 26, 1946. He was married to Brenda Sheryl “Sherry” Sharpe on August 1, 1981.

Tim grew up in San Antonio, the youngest of six siblings. Tim worked for Hewlett-Packard for 39 years. A brilliant mind, he loved wrestling with ideas that ranged from philosophy, theology, religion, science, and politics to football, cooking, mystery novels and science fiction. A practicing Roman Catholic, Tim was a parishioner of St. Michael Church, Bedford, Texas.

He is survived by his loving wife Sherry, son Rev. John Robert Skeldon, daughter Jamie Lynn Larson, daughter Julianna Therese Hogan (Philip), daughter Jennifer Kathleen Stanley (Jay), son Timothy Terrance Skeldon, Jr (Kelly), daughter Sally Elizabeth Allsbrook (Ward), sixteen grandchildren, two great-granddaughters, and several nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his parents, brothers John R. “Jack” Skeldon, Michael Jude Skeldon, sisters Helen Margaret Skeldon, Delana Therese Breece and Laura Ann Skeldon, and son-in-law Shannon Larson.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Patrick Cathedral, Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday, March 16, at 2:00 pm. Committal and burial will follow immediately at Bear Creek Cemetery in Euless, Texas.

Eternal rest grant unto Tim, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.

“They look like big, good, strong hands, don’t they?,” the Rockbiter says in the 1984 movie The Neverending Story, a line Tim would quote and imitate to the squealing delight of his children. Dad, may you be in the big, good, strong hands of the Good Lord—as you always referred to God—forever.