SWANT, Mayme 1919-2002

KRUMREY, MEYERS, SWANT

Posted By: Floyd Co. coordinator
Date: 9/14/2002 at 03:52:15

MAYME SWANT

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Mayme Swant, 82, of 1710 Owen St., Charles City, died Friday (Feb. 8, 2002) at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fullerton Family of Funeral Homes, 401 Blunt St., Charles City, with the Rev. Dennis Niezwaag of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Fullerton Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 641-228-4211.

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Mayme Swant, 82, of 1710 Owen St., Charles City died Friday, (Feb. 8, 2002) in her home.

Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fullerton Family of Funeral Homes, 401 Blunt St., Charles City. Officiating will be the Rev. Dennis Niezwagg of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and again prior to services.

Those planning on an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church or Hospice of North Iowa.

Mayme was born on Dec. 11, 1919, one of five children, to Gustave Frank and Augusta F. (Krumrey) Meyers at Bassett, Iowa. She attended school there and later took dietary courses at Iowa State University at Ames.

She was united in marriage to Wayne Edward Swant on Mar. 6, 1939, at Austin, Minn. To this union was born one son. For the next 42 years they farmed together near Charles City. She also worked at Floyd County Memorial Hospital as a cook for eight and one half years, retiring in 1978. Mayme was a former member of the Ladies of the Moose, the "500" Double Dozen Card group, and the Navy Mothers. She and Wayne loved to travel in their trailers, which she called her dollhouses, spending 10 years wintering in Texas and the last six months in Arizona. She enjoyed reading and swapping romance books with her daughter-in-law, fishing, working with her flowers and canning and freezing her vegetables. When asked what her favorite thing to do was, she replied, "I love to cook". Her cooking abilities lent themselves to many types of foods. She received Personality of the Month at the hospital for her specialty of baking pies.

Those thankful in sharing Mayme's life include her husband of 62 years, Wayne of Charles City, her son, Kenneth and his wife, Connie, also of Charles City; four grandchildren, Tammy, Lori, Brad and Terry; six great grandchildren, Andrew, Matthew, Shaun, Justin, Nicholas and Harley Jane; one sister, Helen, and her husband,"Bill" Rodamaker of Charles City and her sister-in-law, Elda Meyers, also of Charles City; several nieces and nephews and a multitude of friends that have a lifetime of memories.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Myrtle Girken and two brothers, Harold and Leonard Meyers.

Fullerton Hage Funeral Home and Cremation, (641) 228-4211.