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Swenson, Mike (1961-2017)

SWENSON, PETERSON, GREGERSON, GOETTE

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 11/30/2017 at 18:31:29

Mike Swenson
July 8,1961 – October 24, 2017

Mike Swenson, 56, passed away on October 24th, 2017, after a year-long battle with lung cancer.

Mike was born on July 8th, 1961, at the Naeve Hospital in Albert Lea, Minnesota, to Dick and Ardis Swenson of Thompson, Iowa. He attended school in Thompson, graduating in 1980. He, then, enrolled at Ellsworth Community College and later at Iowa State University where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in Marketing.

He spent his professional career in various fields from Management to Insurance and IT. Most recently, he worked for the State of Iowa. He, very much, enjoyed his job and especially the people he met there. Grateful to them for the opportunity to serve with them and for the compassion they showed him and his family when he became ill last year, he regarded his co-workers as a truly exceptional group. He, also very much, enjoyed the time he spent at Ramco Innovations, helping in their shop in recent months. He thought of his service there as a blessing.

A talented woodworker, Mike spent many hours building Adirondack chairs and benches which he enjoyed making for family and friends. He reserved his main love and passion, however, for his family: his wife, Joan, and their twins, John "Jack" and Annika. He loved attending their activities from baseball to wrestling, soccer, school plays, and concerts. Indeed, he saw them as his number one priority, his world!

He will be greatly missed by his wife Joan Swenson; his children, John and Annika, of West Des Moines, Iowa; and his parents, Dick and Ardis Swenson, of Thompson, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by his brother, John; his grandparents, Herb and Dena Peterson, of Emmons, Minnesota, and Adolph and Rose Swenson, of Thompson, Iowa; his uncle, Don Swenson, of Thompson; and his aunts, Maxine Gregerson, of Grand Meadow, Minnesota, and Delores Goette, of Bricelyn, Minnesota.

Hamilton's on Westown Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa, 2017.


 

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