Jessie Bernice (Blickensderfer) Swanson (1899-1984)

BLICKENSDERFER, LEWIS, SWANSON, LARSON, GREINER, SHICKELL, HAAS, MONAGHAN

Posted By: Nancy Sweeney
Date: 3/11/2022 at 20:27:59

Nevada Journal 27 Aug 1984

Mrs. Conrad Swanson

Jessie (Bernice) Swanson, 84 of Nevada, died Monday, Aug 27, 1984, at Story
County Hospital in Nevada. Death was attributed to heart stoppage.

She was born Sept. 18m 1899, at Muscatine, Ia. to Fredrick and Elizabeth Lewis
Blickensderfer. She attended Story County country schools and graduated Colo
High School in 1918 and from Cedar Falls Normal Training in 1919.

On March 1, 1922, she was married to Conrad Swanson at Colo. He survives.

They farmed in the Fernald vicinity for 36 years and moved to Nevada in 1965.

Jessie taught in the Story County schools for three years and was a homemaker.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Fernald and following the
closing of that church became a member of Memorial Lutheran Church in Nevada.
She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and in her various
church functions.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Aug 30, at 11 a.m. at Memorial
Lutheran Church, Nevada, with Rev. John Chadwick officiating. Interment will
be in Nevada Cemetery, Nevada.

Survivors include two daughters, Isabel (Mrs. George) Larson of Ames, Ia. and
Norma Swanson of Des Moines, Ia.; four sisters, Ethel (Mrs. William) Shickell
of Nevada, Myra Haas and Viola Greiner of Ames, Ia., and Bertha Monaghan,
three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Frank and Glen.

Ryan Funeral Home of Nevada is in charge of arrangements.