Swart obituary, Observer-Reporter, Washington (Washington County), Pennsylvania, 4 March, 1977, and 7 March, 1977
Dr. James Hobart Swart, 57, a native of Greene County who was a veterinarian at the Pittsburgh Zoo for 20 years, died of a heart attack Wednesday, March 2, 1977, while vacationing in Venice, Fla., where he owned a home.
A son of Harley Swart of Waynesburg, R. D. 4 and the late Mary Ada Jenkins Swart, he was one of only eight doctors present at the first meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians in Chicago 20 years ago, and was recognized as an expert in his field.
He was a familiar figure at the zoo, particularly to the hundreds of animals he visited every morning during his rounds.
His job was to keep the animals healthy and well-groomed, but when necessary he performed numerous tricky operations. Over the years, he had delivered a lion and baboon through Caesarean sections, performed a hernia operation on an adult elk, and done several vasectomies, including one on a full-grown lion.
Dr. Swart was born November 2, 1919 at Pittsburgh, but the family moved to Waynesburg while he was a child. His father operated a dairy farm and was a vocational-agriculture teacher at Waynesburg High School.
Dr. Swart graduated form Waynesburg High in 1938 and earned his bachelor's degree in agriculture at Pennsylvania State University in 1942.
After serving in the Aleutian Islands with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he earned his DVM at the University of Pennsylvania in 1949.
He set up a private veterinary practice on Freeport Road in O'Hara Township the same year and later was joined in the business by his brother George.
Dr. Swart, who resided on Guys Run Road in Indiana Township, retired from private practice in 1969, after which he worked on retainer as the zoo veterinarian. Previously, he had worked at the zoo on an on-call basis.
He was a member of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association.
He and his wife, the former Gwendolyn Guyton, of Dunbar, were married December 24, 1945. They had no children.
Surviving in addition to his father and his widow are two brothers, George of O'Hara Township and Harold W. of Waynesburg, R. D. 4; a nephew, Christopher Swart of Pittsburgh, and a niece, Mrs. Wayne (Kathy) Peffer of Johnstown.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
SWART - Friends of Dr. James Hobart Swart, a native of Greene County, who died Wednesday, March 2, 1977, are being received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Beinhauer and Son Funeral Home, 2630 Liberty Avenue, Dormont, where services for the family will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday. The family requests contributions to the American Heart Fund or the Pittsburgh Zoo Memorial Fund.
Dr. James Hobart Swart, 57, a native of Greene County who was a veterinarian at the Pittsburgh Zoo for 20 years, died of a heart attack Wednesday, March 2, 1977, while vacationing in Venice, Fla., where he owned a home.
A son of Harley Swart of Waynesburg, R. D. 4 and the late Mary Ada Jenkins Swart, he was one of only eight doctors present at the first meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians in Chicago 20 years ago, and was recognized as an expert in his field.
He was a familiar figure at the zoo, particularly to the hundreds of animals he visited every morning during his rounds.
His job was to keep the animals healthy and well-groomed, but when necessary he performed numerous tricky operations. Over the years, he had delivered a lion and baboon through Caesarean sections, performed a hernia operation on an adult elk, and done several vasectomies, including one on a full-grown lion.
Dr. Swart was born November 2, 1919 at Pittsburgh, but the family moved to Waynesburg while he was a child. His father operated a dairy farm and was a vocational-agriculture teacher at Waynesburg High School.
Dr. Swart graduated form Waynesburg High in 1938 and earned his bachelor's degree in agriculture at Pennsylvania State University in 1942.
After serving in the Aleutian Islands with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he earned his DVM at the University of Pennsylvania in 1949.
He set up a private veterinary practice on Freeport Road in O'Hara Township the same year and later was joined in the business by his brother George.
Dr. Swart, who resided on Guys Run Road in Indiana Township, retired from private practice in 1969, after which he worked on retainer as the zoo veterinarian. Previously, he had worked at the zoo on an on-call basis.
He was a member of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association.
He and his wife, the former Gwendolyn Guyton, of Dunbar, were married December 24, 1945. They had no children.
Surviving in addition to his father and his widow are two brothers, George of O'Hara Township and Harold W. of Waynesburg, R. D. 4; a nephew, Christopher Swart of Pittsburgh, and a niece, Mrs. Wayne (Kathy) Peffer of Johnstown.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
SWART - Friends of Dr. James Hobart Swart, a native of Greene County, who died Wednesday, March 2, 1977, are being received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Beinhauer and Son Funeral Home, 2630 Liberty Avenue, Dormont, where services for the family will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday. The family requests contributions to the American Heart Fund or the Pittsburgh Zoo Memorial Fund.
Swart obituary, Observer-Reporter, Washington (Washington County), Pennsylvania, 4 March, 1977, and 7 March, 1977
Dr. James Hobart Swart, 57, a native of Greene County who was a veterinarian at the Pittsburgh Zoo for 20 years, died of a heart attack Wednesday, March 2, 1977, while vacationing in Venice, Fla., where he owned a home.
A son of Harley Swart of Waynesburg, R. D. 4 and the late Mary Ada Jenkins Swart, he was one of only eight doctors present at the first meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians in Chicago 20 years ago, and was recognized as an expert in his field.
He was a familiar figure at the zoo, particularly to the hundreds of animals he visited every morning during his rounds.
His job was to keep the animals healthy and well-groomed, but when necessary he performed numerous tricky operations. Over the years, he had delivered a lion and baboon through Caesarean sections, performed a hernia operation on an adult elk, and done several vasectomies, including one on a full-grown lion.
Dr. Swart was born November 2, 1919 at Pittsburgh, but the family moved to Waynesburg while he was a child. His father operated a dairy farm and was a vocational-agriculture teacher at Waynesburg High School.
Dr. Swart graduated form Waynesburg High in 1938 and earned his bachelor's degree in agriculture at Pennsylvania State University in 1942.
After serving in the Aleutian Islands with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he earned his DVM at the University of Pennsylvania in 1949.
He set up a private veterinary practice on Freeport Road in O'Hara Township the same year and later was joined in the business by his brother George.
Dr. Swart, who resided on Guys Run Road in Indiana Township, retired from private practice in 1969, after which he worked on retainer as the zoo veterinarian. Previously, he had worked at the zoo on an on-call basis.
He was a member of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association.
He and his wife, the former Gwendolyn Guyton, of Dunbar, were married December 24, 1945. They had no children.
Surviving in addition to his father and his widow are two brothers, George of O'Hara Township and Harold W. of Waynesburg, R. D. 4; a nephew, Christopher Swart of Pittsburgh, and a niece, Mrs. Wayne (Kathy) Peffer of Johnstown.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
SWART - Friends of Dr. James Hobart Swart, a native of Greene County, who died Wednesday, March 2, 1977, are being received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Beinhauer and Son Funeral Home, 2630 Liberty Avenue, Dormont, where services for the family will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday. The family requests contributions to the American Heart Fund or the Pittsburgh Zoo Memorial Fund.
Dr. James Hobart Swart, 57, a native of Greene County who was a veterinarian at the Pittsburgh Zoo for 20 years, died of a heart attack Wednesday, March 2, 1977, while vacationing in Venice, Fla., where he owned a home.
A son of Harley Swart of Waynesburg, R. D. 4 and the late Mary Ada Jenkins Swart, he was one of only eight doctors present at the first meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians in Chicago 20 years ago, and was recognized as an expert in his field.
He was a familiar figure at the zoo, particularly to the hundreds of animals he visited every morning during his rounds.
His job was to keep the animals healthy and well-groomed, but when necessary he performed numerous tricky operations. Over the years, he had delivered a lion and baboon through Caesarean sections, performed a hernia operation on an adult elk, and done several vasectomies, including one on a full-grown lion.
Dr. Swart was born November 2, 1919 at Pittsburgh, but the family moved to Waynesburg while he was a child. His father operated a dairy farm and was a vocational-agriculture teacher at Waynesburg High School.
Dr. Swart graduated form Waynesburg High in 1938 and earned his bachelor's degree in agriculture at Pennsylvania State University in 1942.
After serving in the Aleutian Islands with the Army Air Corps during World War II, he earned his DVM at the University of Pennsylvania in 1949.
He set up a private veterinary practice on Freeport Road in O'Hara Township the same year and later was joined in the business by his brother George.
Dr. Swart, who resided on Guys Run Road in Indiana Township, retired from private practice in 1969, after which he worked on retainer as the zoo veterinarian. Previously, he had worked at the zoo on an on-call basis.
He was a member of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association.
He and his wife, the former Gwendolyn Guyton, of Dunbar, were married December 24, 1945. They had no children.
Surviving in addition to his father and his widow are two brothers, George of O'Hara Township and Harold W. of Waynesburg, R. D. 4; a nephew, Christopher Swart of Pittsburgh, and a niece, Mrs. Wayne (Kathy) Peffer of Johnstown.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
SWART - Friends of Dr. James Hobart Swart, a native of Greene County, who died Wednesday, March 2, 1977, are being received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Beinhauer and Son Funeral Home, 2630 Liberty Avenue, Dormont, where services for the family will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday. The family requests contributions to the American Heart Fund or the Pittsburgh Zoo Memorial Fund.
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