CHLOE (JOHNSON) SWEARINGEN

JOHNSON, SWEARINGEN

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Date: 8/12/2002 at 18:54:20

Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, June 2l, l923

MRS. C.J. SWEARINGEN died early Wednesday morning at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, following a very brief illness caused by cancer of the throat.

MRS. SWEARINGEN, who made her home with her brother, W.S. JOHNSON, had been inconvenienced by a slight hoarseness and small growth in her throat for only a few months and it was only l0 days ago that it was found necessary to consult a surgeon. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital just a week prior to her death and there it was found that the growth was cancerous and no operation was possible. Everything possible was done for her comfort and the end came quickly to end the inevitable suffering.

CHLOE JOHNSON SWEARINGEN was born January l3, l85l, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Her father, who was a pioneer minister in the Presbyterian Church, moved his family to Iowa in the early years of the Civil War, and he held pastorates at Oskaloosa, Indianola and Leon.

MRS. SWEARINGEN was a graduate of Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, and all of her life has been a great student. She later taught in that college and in other schools. In November l880, she was married to ANTRIM SWEARINGEN who preceded her in death l8 years ago. No children were born to this union, but for many years MRS. SWEARINGEN cared for the four motherless children of her step-son, ED SWEARINGEN.

In Newton, she has made many friends in the Presbyterian Church, of which she has been a life-long member. Her activities have been centered in the Westminister Sunday School Class of women of which she was a teacher for a number of years and in the missionary society.

She is survived by three brothers, FRANK S. JOHNSON, San Jose, California; G.E. JOHNSON, Indianola, Iowa; W.S. JOHNSON of this city, and a number of nieces and nephews in whose welfare she always took the greatest interest. Funeral services will be held in Indianola and burial made there.

--Newton Record.

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August 8, 2002