SWAILES, Clara MayBell (HEARE), 1920-2012
SWAILES, HEARE, PHILIPS, COCHRAN, SAMPSON, PLOWMAN, HECKENBERG, WEBB, VANSTEINBERG, HILL
Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 2/5/2012 at 14:20:35
The Burlington (IA) Hawk Eye
published online: 25 January 2012Clara SWAILES
Clara M. SWAILES, 91, of Mt. Pleasant passed away on Monday, January 23, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center Hospice in Iowa City.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. at the Murphy Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant. Burial will follow in the Spencer Cemetery, rural Stockport. Friends may call from 1 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 9 a.m. until service time at Murphy Funeral Home. Memorials may be directed to the Stockport Library or to Mercy Medical Center Intensive Care Unit and Hospice.
Clara MayBell SWAILES was born on April 2, 1920, in Hamlock City, Michigan, the daughter of Cora HEARE. She resided in Midland, Michigan, until moving to Stockport in 1929. She was united in marriage to Wilson Woodrow SWAILES on December 4, 1939, in Kahoka, Missouri. She was a longtime resident and business women of Stockport and later moved to Mt. Pleasant where she resided for more than 30 years. She was a member of Rebekah Assembly of the I.O.O.F.
She is survived by two daughters, Sandra (Garry) PHILIPS of Stockport and Linda (Steven) COCHRAN of Fort Wright, Kentucky; three granddaughters, Laura (Bob) SAMPSON of Drakesville, Lisa (Rick) PLOWMAN of Douds and Leslie (Mark) HECKENBERG of Stockport; eight great-grandchildren; five great-great- grandchildren; a sister, Mabel WEBB of Burlington; a brother, George (Carol) VanSTIENBERG of Lampasas, Texas; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Clara was preceded in death by her parents, Cora and Verne VanSTIENBERG; husband, Wilson SWAILES; and one sister, Bettye HILL.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.beattymurphyfh.com.
Murphy Funeral Home of Mt. Pleasant is handling the arrangements.
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