Services Set for Times Reporter Nancy Skelton
Memorial services have been scheduled in both Los Angeles and Sacramento for Nancy Skelton, a Times reporter who died Sunday.
Police attributed her death in her Los Angeles home to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
She was 46 and had been with The Times since 1978 after working as a reporter, political writer and columnist for the Sacramento Bee for 16 years.
She started at The Times in its San Diego County Edition offices and transferred to Los Angeles in 1982 where she joined the City-County Bureau, writing extensively about local government and politics.
She covered Mayor Tom Bradley’s unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1982 and Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign.
Recently, she had been a general assignment reporter. Her assignments ranged from the face lift of the Golden Gate Bridge to Los Angeles’ efforts to ban smoking in public places. Her last series of stories dealt with the state lottery.
The Los Angeles service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church at Dixie Canyon Avenue and Moorpark Street in Sherman Oaks. The Sacramento service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Sacred Heart Church. There will be no funeral.
Her survivors include three daughters, a sister and a grandson.
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