When Julia Grace Hetherington was born on 6 August 1926, in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan, United States, her father, William J Hetherington, was 28 and her mother, Esther Ruth Miller, was 23. She married Richard Leroy Skinner on 25 October 1946, in Benton Township, Berrien, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 13 August 2003, in Stevensville, Lincoln Township, Berrien, Michigan, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Bridgman, Berrien, Michigan, United States.
English (northern): habitational name from Hetherington in Wark (Northumberland) or from Harrington (Northamptonshire), both from the Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. This surname has been established in Ireland (Laois, Tyrone) since the 16th century.
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