Yvonne Muriel Swain Haigh 1928-1979

HAIGH, SWAIN, MEIER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/20/2011 at 00:15:05

Yvonne Muriel Haigh
1928-1979
Estherville – Mrs. Ben (Yvonne Muriel) Haigh, 51, Estherville, died Monday [December 17, 1979] morning at Holy Family Hospital.

Services for Mrs. Haigh will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Albert O. Grendler officiating. Interment will be in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Estherville.

A Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home, Estherville.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Wednesday until time of services.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Swain, she was born Jan. 17, 1928, in Chicago, Ill. She received her education in Des Moines and Omaha, Neb., schools graduating at Omaha in 1946, and was married to Ben Haigh on March 22, 1947 at Grand Island, Neb. The couple moved to Estherville in 1963, where they have made their home since. She was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

Mrs. Haigh is survived by her husband, Ben, Estherville; one son, Ben (Bill) Haigh, Portland, Ore.; two daughters, Kathleen Haigh, Iowa City, and Sherri Haigh, Estherville; her mother, Mrs. Evelyn Meier, Terril; and one brother, Earl Swain, Minneapolis, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her father. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 18, 1979)