Douglas Warren Swanson 1943 - 2014

SWANSON, PRUNTY, BAKER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/28/2014 at 13:59:58

Sioux City Journal
23 October 2014

SIOUX CITY | Douglas Warren Swanson, 71, of Sioux City passed away Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, at his residence following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Meyer Brothers Morningside Chapel. The Rev. Tim Bonney will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home. Online condolences may be sent to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Doug was born on July 25, 1943, in Cherokee, Iowa, the son of Melvin and Winifred (Prunty) Swanson. Doug grew up in Sutherland, Iowa, and graduated from Calumet High School in 1962. He was an All State basketball player his junior and senior years. He graduated from Morningside College in 1966.

Doug married Carol Jean Baker on Feb. 15, 1964, in Sioux City. She passed away on Jan. 17, 2014, in Sioux City.

Doug worked at Morey’s and Raymond’s Clothing Store during college and then taught and coached basketball and football at West Junior High. In 1976, Doug went to work for New York Life, and in 1983, he began working at E.F. Hutton. He became an independent agent and financial adviser and formed the Swanson Group LLC in 1997.

Doug was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, Morningside Masonic Lodge 615 A.F. & A.M., and the White Horse Mounted Patrol.

Survivors include three sons and their families, Stan Swanson and his wife, Lisa and their children, Andrew and Lauren of Glendale, Ariz., Steve Swanson and his fiancee, Marlene Smith, Steve's daughters and their husbands, Paxton and Troy Cutler and their son, Owen Cutler, and Lexis and Richard Morgan, and Marlene’s daughter, Kristian Smith, all of Sioux City, and Scott Swanson and his wife, Nancy and their children, Sydney and Noah of Phoenix, Ariz.; three brothers, Norman Swanson and his wife, Mary of Hartley, Iowa, Gail Swanson and his wife, Grace of Sutherland, and Lyle Swanson and his wife, Donna of Elgin, Ill.; and one sister, Wanda Blair of Sutherland.

Doug was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Carol; and two brothers, Rodney and Neal.

Pallbearers will be John Neubaum, Gene Anderson Sr., Howie Holdenried, Steve Condon, Richard Morgan III, and Troy Cutler.