Marilyne Skinner

Marilyne Gay Skinner passed away peacefully on April 5, 2026, two days before her 95th birthday, in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born April 7, 1931, to William Clyde and Reva Fern (Mangum) Hamblin in Victor, Idaho, the second oldest of four children. 

Gay lived the majority of her life in the beautiful Teton Valley. She graduated from Teton High School in 1949. Teton High was also where she met Jerald “Jerry” Peacock. Jerry and Gay were married on October 9, 1949, and raised five children on the Peacock family homestead just north of Driggs. 

She loved hiking, even completing a hike to Packsaddle Lake on July 24, 2020, at 89 years old. In winter, she loved to cross-country ski and mentioned just days before her passing that she wished she could go skiing. She was a talented quilter, knitter, crocheter, and baked legendary dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls. 

She was a hairdresser, then school lunch lady in Tetonia and district school lunch supervisor for Teton School District until her retirement. She also served on the board of the Teton Valley Hospital. 

After Jerry’s passing in 2003, she married Blaine Skinner on April 8, 2012. They spent their winters at his home in St. George, Utah, and summers at her home in Driggs. She had seven years with her beloved Blaine before his passing in 2019. 

She is survived by her children: Pamela Anderson, Debra (Jack) Zollinger, Janet Peacock, and Zachary (Lisha) Peacock, eleven grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and two sisters: Sharon Ard, and Linda (Gary) Wiese. 

She is preceded in death by her husbands, Jerry and Blaine, her daughter Katherine (Jerry) Fager, two grandchildren, and her older brother, Rex Hamblin. 

Her family would like to thank her caregivers at The Homestead in Rexburg for their care and compassion in her later life. 

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, April 17th at the LDS church in Tetonia, Idaho. The family will visit with friends at the church on Thursday, April 16th from 5:30-7 pm , and a half hour prior to the funeral service. 

In lieu of f lowers, donations can be made to provide resources to the public schools in Teton School District at tetoneducation.org or to the Teton Valley Health Care Foundation at tvhcare.org.