Ethel Maxine (Busch) Swanger (2010)
AREY, BUSCH, FRAZIER, HINTERMEISTER, MOORE, NELSON, REISINGER, SCHNEIDER, SWANGER
Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 6/10/2010 at 22:30:05
Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, June 2, 2010E. MAXINE SWANGER, Creston
Maxine Swanger, 90, died Sunday, May 30, 2010, at the Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston.
Visitation will be held Thursday from 2 to 8 p.m., with family present from 6 to 8 p.m., at Pearson-Coen-Beaty Family Funeral Service in Creston.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at Orient Methodist Church in Orient with Pastor Karen Hoff officiating. Burial will be at Williamson Bohemian National Cemetery in Williamson.
Memorials to the Williamson Legion Auxiliary, Orient Methodist Church or Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston will be accepted. Online condolences may be made to www pearsonfuneralhomes.com.
The daughter of Ernest Andrew and Dulcie Velma (Moore) Busch, Maxine was born August 9, 1919, in Blunt, S.D. She married Leland William Swanger on July 23, 1938, in Chillicothe, MO.
Maxine was a homemaker. She graduated from Macksburg High School and lived most of her life in rural Creston, where she helped Leland operate the family's farm.
Maxine enjoyed spending time with family and friends. She was an exceptional pie-maker and she enjoyed bowling, golfing and playing cards. Maxine was a former president and secretary-treasurer of the Williamson Legion Auxiliary and Nevinville Ladies Aide. She was also a member of the XYZ and Jolly Neighbors clubs, as well as the Orient United Methodist Church. She taught children's Sunday School and Bible School classes at the former Nevinville United Methodist Church, of which she was a member.
She is survived by a son, Larry (Cathy) Swanger of West Des Moines; two daughters, Connie Arey (Larry Reisinger) of Fort Mohave, Arizona, and Jerilyn (Al) Schneider of Creston; a brother, Douglas Busch of Winterset; six grandchildren, Cindy Nelson, Tracy Arey, Mitch Arey, Michael Swanger, Brianna Schneider and Garrett Schneider; six great- grandchildren; two great- great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother, Leslie Busch; and two sisters, Phyllis Frazier and Irma Hintermeister.
________________________Coordinator's note: First name taken from 1930 Madison County Census.
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