Linda Livingston Skinner

Linda Skinner was born March 15, 1942 in Oklahoma City, OK the 5th of 6 children to Charles Lee and Ada Patricia Hammond-Livingston. She grew up in Oklahoma City and graduated from Classen High School in 1960. She married Kamal Shanbour and to this union were born three children. She later married CPT Zane Skinner. Linda earned a Bachelor of Science degree Summa Cum Laude in biology/chemistry from Central State Univ. (currently UCO) in Edmond, OK in 1963 and received the Outstanding Scholar Award from UCO during her freshman year. She then earned her Master of Science Degree in Physiology from the Univ. of Oklahoma Medical School, Oklahoma City, OK in 1965 and worked as a Physiologist at the VA Hospital in OKC from 1963-1965. Linda continued her education and earned her Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics from the Univ. of Alabama Medical School in Birmingham, AL in 1968. She served as faculty at the Univ. of Oklahoma Medical School from 1968-1971 and was employed by the Department of Defense for the VA Hospital from 1968-1970. Linda later served on the faculty of Univ. of Texas Medical School at Houston from 1971 until retiring in 1985.

Linda received numerous scientific honors including National Institute of Health Scholarship from 1965-1968, National Institute of Health Research Career Development Award from 1971-1976, Fulbright Scholar Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysik in Frankfurt, Germany from 1983-1984, and she was the invited science consultant to many countries including the United States in Washington D.C., London, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Japan and China. Linda served in numerous community activities as well, including Executive Board of Oklahoma Science and Arts Foundation from 1970-1971 and Board of Directors of Volunteers of America in Houston, TX where she served as treasurer and vice-president from 1981-1983.

Her most notable publication was on Toluene Sensitivity as part of the Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome-Case Report.

She was preceded in death by husband Capt. Zane Skinner, retired Port of Houston ship pilot, and siblings: Charles Aaron Livingston, Samoa Gayle Livingston, Patricia Lee Hawk, and Barbara Ann Forrest. She is survived by a brother, Lee Douglas Livingston of Tucson, AZ; her first husband Kamal Shanbour; her three children, Richard Livingston Shanbour, CPA of Oklahoma City, OK, Kamal Anthony Shanbour, MD of Edmond, OK and Brian Michael Shanbour, J.D. of Edmond, OK; grandchildren, Maria Nicole Shanbour Maupin, Trisha Geneva Shanbour, Quinn Anthony Shanbour, Torie Ann Shanbour, Jacqueline Olivia Shanbour, and Marina Marie Shanbour; great grandchildren, Anthony Jacob Maupin, Harper Marie Maupin, Easton James Maupin, Nora Victoria Goga, Charlotte Paige Shanbour, Vivan Elizabeth Goga, and Maverick Anthony Shanbour.; numerous nephews and nieces; as well as CPT Zane’s children, Michael Clayton Skinner of Mentor, OH, Admiral Walter Mark Skinner, USN, of Washington, DC, Zana Skinner Blakely of Pearland, TX, and Kristen Carolyn Simpson of Webster, TX.