Swanson, Lydia 1884-1958

SWANSON, BALTISBERGER, HAGENLOCK, ROSELAND, BUSCH, TREFZ

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Date: 4/12/2013 at 08:24:16

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Oct. 27, 1958

TO HOLD SERVICES
TUESDAY FOR MRS.
LYDIA SWANSON

Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) for Mrs. Lydia Swanson of Route one, Malcom, who passed away Saturday morning at a Des Moines hospital at the age of 86.

Services will start at 2:00 p.m. at the James-Schalinske Funeral Home with Clyde Johnson officiating. Organist will be Mrs. Kathleen Heffner and music will be by Ruby Edwards and Helen Seabach.

Pallbearers will be Jack Patten, Tom D. Byer, Earl Anthony, Emmett Douglas, Cooper Hutchinson and John Goodlaxon. Burial will be at Ivy Hill cemetery at Malcom.

Mrs. Swanson was born on Oct. 3, 1884 in Sheridan township, the daughter of William and Louise Baltisberger Hagenlock. She was a life-long resident of the Malcom community.

On Oct. 15, 1903, she was married to John M. Swanson at her parents' home north of Grinnell. Following their marriage, they moved to their home seven miles east of Grinnell and farmed there until their retirement in 1941, when they moved to Malcom.

She had made her home on her farm since the death of her husband in May, 1956.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W.B. (Anna) Grinstead of Des Moines; Mrs. Charles (Martha) Hewitt of Fargo, N.D.; and Mrs. George (Esther Schraw of Park Rapids, Minn.; one son, Ernest of rural Malcom; 16 grand-children and five great-grand-children.

She is also survived by seven brothers, Waldemar, William, Ernest, Henry, Otto, and Paul Hagenlock of South Dakota and Oscar of California; and three sisters, Mrs. Clarence Roseland, Mrs. Clarence Busch and Mrs. Carl Trefz, all of South Dakota.

Her parents preceded her in death.