Clinton Edward Swale 1879-1963

SWALE, COOK, DAVIS, GASPAR, MILLSLAGLE, MOOSE, MARSHALL, REAMER, GIFFORD, LAWRENCE, WOODS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 8/1/2011 at 20:21:08

Clinton E. Swale Dies

Funeral services will be 9:30 Monday morning at St. Patrick’s church for Clinton Edward Swale, 84, who died at 3:30 a.m. today in Holy Family Hospital. He had been in failing health for the past year and had been hospitalized two weeks. Death was caused by complications due to surgery.

Mr. Swale was born Oct. 13, 1879 in West Union, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Swale. He received his education in the West Union and Nora Spring schools. In April 23, 1906, he and Florence B. Cook were married at Estherville.

Mr. Swale came to Estherville in 1900 as an employee of the Rock Island Railroad and had lived here ever since. In 1945 he retired as a conductor on the Rock Island.

Mr. Swale was a longtime member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and of the St. Patrick’s Church.

He is survived by his widow, a son Clinton of Iowa Falls; five daughters, Mrs. Everett (Eunice) Davis, Spirit Lake; Mrs. Floyd (Florence) Gaspar of Sioux Falls; Mrs. E. T. (Viviette) Millslagle of Burlington, Colo.; Mrs. William (Loretta) Moose of Waterloo; Mrs. H. C. (Mary Evelyn) Marshall of Washburn; 15 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren.

He is also survived by one brother, Glenn of Minneapolis, Minn.; four sisters, Mrs. Armeda Reamer, Mrs. Della Gifford and Mrs. Lena Lawrence, all of Minneapolis; and Mrs. Grace Woods, Winona, Minn.

He was preceded in death by one brother, one sister and a grandson.

Burial will be in St. Patrick’s cemetery. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday at Reese Funeral Home and friends may call there after 6 p.m. Saturday until 9 a.m. Monday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 8, 1963)