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Russell Leroy Swihart

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Russell Leroy Swihart

Birth
Wabash County, Indiana, USA
Death
13 Jan 1988 (aged 83)
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Akron, Fulton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Thursday, January 14, 1988, Rochester Sentinel

Russell L. Swihart

Russell L. SWIHART, 83, of 203 S. Maple St., Akron, died at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday at Woodlawn Hospital where he had been a patient since Monday. He had been in failing health for six years.

He was born Jan. 21, 1904 in Wabash County to Frank and Bertie KLINE SWIHART. He had lived most of his life in the Akron area. He was married Oct. 22, 1927 in Rochester to Carrie L. CHURCHILL, who survives. He attended the former Beaver Dam School and was in the United States Army from 1922 to 1925. He retired from farming in 1964. He was a member of the Fulton County Historical Society.

Surviving with the wife are three daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Pauline) RUFF, Akron; Mrs. Gene (Norma Lee) HAMMOND, North Manchester, and Mrs. Gene (Judy) MONTAGUE, Akron; two sons, Leroy SWIHART, Wabash, and Jack SWIHART, Macy; twenty-one grandchildren, and twenty-one great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Foster & Good Funeral Home in Akron with the Rev. Lowell BURRIS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. Saturday until services. Memorials may be made to charity.`





Thursday, January 14, 1988, Rochester Sentinel

Russell L. Swihart

Russell L. SWIHART, 83, of 203 S. Maple St., Akron, died at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday at Woodlawn Hospital where he had been a patient since Monday. He had been in failing health for six years.

He was born Jan. 21, 1904 in Wabash County to Frank and Bertie KLINE SWIHART. He had lived most of his life in the Akron area. He was married Oct. 22, 1927 in Rochester to Carrie L. CHURCHILL, who survives. He attended the former Beaver Dam School and was in the United States Army from 1922 to 1925. He retired from farming in 1964. He was a member of the Fulton County Historical Society.

Surviving with the wife are three daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Pauline) RUFF, Akron; Mrs. Gene (Norma Lee) HAMMOND, North Manchester, and Mrs. Gene (Judy) MONTAGUE, Akron; two sons, Leroy SWIHART, Wabash, and Jack SWIHART, Macy; twenty-one grandchildren, and twenty-one great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Foster & Good Funeral Home in Akron with the Rev. Lowell BURRIS officiating. Burial will be in the Akron I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. Saturday until services. Memorials may be made to charity.`







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