Ongie, Ethel Alice (Sweaney) Lighthart --- 1911-2012
RICHIE, SWEANEY, LIGHTHART, ONGIE
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Date: 6/5/2013 at 09:32:29
Ethel A. Ongie
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. November 6, 2012 at Leonard-Muller Funeral Home & Crematory in Manchester, Iowa, for Ethel Alice (Sweaney) Lighthart Ongie, 101, of Delhi, Iowa, who passed away peacefully on November 3, 2012, at the Good Neighbor Home, Manchester. Visitation was from 10 until the beginning of the services at 11 a.m. The private family burial was at Evergreen Cemetery, Delhi, Iowa.
Ethel Alice Sweaney was born October 16, 1911, in Delhi, Iowa. She was the daughter of William and Hattie (Richie) Sweaney.
She graduated from Delhi Consolidated High School in 1930. She worked at various jobs around Delhi and Dubuque before moving to Arizona, New York, and then New Jersey where she worked at the Morris County Youth Center for 25 years. In 1976 Ethel retired and moved back home to Delhi where she spent many happy years living next to her brother and sister-in-law, Ralph and Izetta.
Ethel had a long series of animals that she dearly loved and she always made them wonderful homes. Her one surviving cat, Tinker, has a loving home with Florence Miller who adopted her when Ethel moved to the Good Neighbor Home.
Ethel was very talented and could do anything. She was known for the beautiful afghans she created as well as the delicious meals she cooked and especially her pies. She was still crocheting potholders on her 101st birthday.
Ethel Ongie was a very spirited woman and spoke her mind often using a very colorful vocabulary. She cherished her time with her family, friends and animals.
Survivors include her two nephews (the loves of her life) and their wives, Dennis (Jane) Sweaney and David (Anne) Sweaney, all of Athens, Georgia; 4 grand-nieces and grand-nephews, Kirsten Evans (Adam) Rogers, Arkansas, Sean (Joy) Sweaney, Nashville, Tennessee, Heather and Christopher Sweaney of Athens, Georgia; 3 great-grand nieces and nephews, Sophie and Max Evans and Adelaide Sweaney; her dear friend, Karen Mayer; and her loving cat, Tinker.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Alfred Frances “Red” Lighthart and William Ongie, who died in 1964; four siblings, Ralph “Hap”, Ruby, Kenneth, and Lynn; as well as many friends.
Taken from a funeral brochure.
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