SWANSON, Mayme L. DAVIS 1888 - 1971

SWANSON, DAVIS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/8/2006 at 12:04:35

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1971
Page 3, Column 4

Mrs. Mayme L. (DAVIS) SWANSON, 82, native of Jefferson County, died Mon. at Fairfield Convalescent Home. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Behner Funeral Home.

Born Nov. 13, 1888, near Libertyville, daughter of Harmar and Maude DAVIS. Rural school teacher before her marriage to Richard (sic - Carl Richard) SWANSON. They lived in Albia, Centerville and New Sharon until they retired from business in 1957 and moved to Woodbury, N.J. They returned to Iowa in 1964 and she moved to Fairfield after husband's death in 1966.

Survived by one son, Merrell E. SWANSON, Bellevue, Wash., and two grandsons. One son and two sisters are deceased. She was OES and DAR.

[Also posted to the Appanoose, Mahaska, and Monroe Counties' Obituaries boards]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).

Note: Both are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, in Lot 3rd.086.