SWAIM, Willard Mancil "Shorty" Sr.
SWAIM, METTS, PEARL, STONE
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/12/2018 at 19:21:26
Obituary ~ Willard Mancil "Shorty" Swaim, Sr.
February 21, 1928 ~ July 30, 2012Montgomery Standard
Montgomery City, Montgomery County, MissouriWillard Mancil "Shorty" Swaim, 84, of Martinsburg, passed away at 9:01 P.M., Monday, July 30, 2012 at Golden Living Center/Gamma Road Lodge in Wellsville.
Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 P.M., Thursday, August 2nd at the Myers Funeral Home in Wellsville. Funeral services will be at 11:00 A.M., Friday, August 3rd at the Martinsburg Com-munity Church. Rev. John Blass will officiate. Serving as organist will be Lisa Brandt. Soloist will be Beth Swaim.
Burial will be in Swaim Cemetery, west of Martinsburg. Full Military Honors will be provided by American Legion Post 552 and Missouri Military Funeral Honors Detail Team.
Mr. Swaim was born February 21, 1928, in Afton, Iowa, a son of Paul Lloyd and Lola Geneva Metts Swaim. He was a 1946 graduate of Martinsburg High School.
Shorty served his country in the United States Navy, entering in 1946 and being honorably discharged in 1949. He reenlisted in 1953 and served until being honorably discharged in 1957. Shorty was the recipient of the National Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
On August 25, 1951, in Martinsburg, Missouri, he married Donna Irene Pearl.
He was a member of Martinsburg Community Church and the American Legion Post 552.
Shorty had owned and operated Shorty's Auto Sales in Martinsburg. Through the years, he sold cars at various dealerships in the surrounding area. Shorty had also worked at the soybean mill in Mexico for several years. One of his favorite things to do was to spend time with all of his family at Swaim Park where they enjoyed cookouts, fishing, deer hunting and playing cards, especially poker. Many people didn't know it but Shorty was a poet and had written numerous poems throughout the years.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers and sister-in-law, Walter Lloyd Swaim and Leo Dean and Marie Swaim and brothers-in-law, Jim Pearl and Charlie Stone.
Memorials are suggested to Swaim Park Trust c/o Myers Funeral Home, 203 East Bates Street, Wellsville, Missouri 63384.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.myersfuneralhome.biz.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2018
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