Skeeter Bonn

Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 – 6 November 1994)[3] was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several singles on RCA Victor in the 1950s.

[2] He was born in 1923 in Sugarville,[1][2] a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois.

At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton.

[3] He joined the United States Navy in 1942,[3] married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945,[2][3] and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946.

[3] After that he was a regular on the WLS National Barn Dance from Chicago,[2][3] WLW Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati, and WWVA Jamboree from Wheeling, West Virginia.