Arthur “Bud” Burgess Skinner, Jr.

San Francisco Artist Crosses the Divide, 78 of San Francisco, bravely passed away March 21, 2021 with his surviving sister by his side. He wished to be remembered as the fastest bicyclist in Marin in 1970 racing to Muir Beach, through Mill Valley, and back to the bait shop in Sausalito; he could reach Tam High from 19th Avenue in 45 minutes. Shortly after, he survived stage 4 Hodgkin’s Disease, though left with the consequences of the cure.

Bud was a busy industrious boy in Marin. Always fearless at 15 traveled down the spine of California to the San Fernando Valley in a borrowed car during a summer dishwasher stint at Tahoe Taverns, hopping freight trains the summer of high school graduation landing a job in Manhattan’s Garment District, twice traveling to Honduras and Guatemala in search of opals during his early 20s, a professional artist in the Upper Grant Avenue 1960s scene, designing bars in the City and peninsula often times salvaging discarded virgin redwood south of Market. Bud slowed down later as an avid dancer with many of the West Coast Swing and Lindy Hop clubs , making occasional forays in the sport memorabilia trade. Much later Bud enjoyed telling his mother he found the perfect job in taking care of her; she lived to 98.

Member of the Mill Valley Historical Society. Bud leaves family and friends of the 12 step communities who had enhanced his spirituality. His last wishes were for those to forgive him his trespasses as he has forgiven those who trespassed against him.