Nora Secelia Madsen was born Feb. 14, 1897, near Arlington, South Dakota to Christ L. and Petrina Madsen. She died 12 March, 1964 at the Lake Preston Hospital, Lake Preston, South Dakota.
Nora attended Luther College at Austin, Minnesota and studied nursing at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, MN. The Arlington Sun noted on 22 June 1917 that she had “returned to St. Olaf Hospital…after visiting three weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Madsen. Miss Nora and Miss Evelyn Peterson have spent a number of years at St. Olaf Hospital and are now graduate nurses.”
At the time of the 1920 census, she was working in Manhattan, New York City, at the Woman’s Hospital. She worked in Manhattan for around ten years.
Nora returned from New York when her father became ill and provided nursing services for him. After her father’s death, she remained in Arlington and provided private nursing services for people near Arlington and Brookings for a number of years. She is noted as caring for her grandmother in Luck, Wisconsin, who passed away in June, 1918; uncle Jorgen Damn (1940), nephew Hartman Hinderaker who died of scarlet fever in 1933 and C.L. Madsen’s obituary noted that she and Ebba cared for him during the last years of his life. She lived with her mother, Petrina Madsen, for several years before Petrina’s death in 1941.
She married Clinton P. (C.P.) Swift on April 7, 1948, in Arlington, South Dakota. C.P Swift was an esteemed local banker. He worked at the Citizen’s State Bank in 1940 and was noted as the postmaster during the 1930s. He had three children from his first marriage to Ethel Lawton, who died in 1916. Nora’s step children included stepson Shirley Herbert and step daughters Rosella Frances and Jeanette Demaris.
Nora and Clinton moved to Sacramento, California, in 1954 after Clinton retired. In 1957, C.P. Swift suffered a severe stroke; however, he recovered well from that one according to the newspaper. They returned to Arlington in May, 1959, when they returned to Arlington and planned to build a new home. According to the 6 Aug 1959 Arlington Sun , Clinton had stood the trip home well; however in a matter of a few weeks he began to lose ground health-wise and was taken to the hospital and passed away at the Lake Preston Hospital on 4 August 1959.
Nora passed away March 12, 1964, at the Lake Preston Hospital following an illness of many weeks. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, with the Rev. Donald Klarup in charge. Music was furnished by soloist Mark Eldredge, accompanied by Mrs. Lyle Rapp. Interment was in the Arlington Cemetery by the side of her husband Clinton P. Swift.
Nora attended Luther College at Austin, Minnesota and studied nursing at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, MN. The Arlington Sun noted on 22 June 1917 that she had “returned to St. Olaf Hospital…after visiting three weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Madsen. Miss Nora and Miss Evelyn Peterson have spent a number of years at St. Olaf Hospital and are now graduate nurses.”
At the time of the 1920 census, she was working in Manhattan, New York City, at the Woman’s Hospital. She worked in Manhattan for around ten years.
Nora returned from New York when her father became ill and provided nursing services for him. After her father’s death, she remained in Arlington and provided private nursing services for people near Arlington and Brookings for a number of years. She is noted as caring for her grandmother in Luck, Wisconsin, who passed away in June, 1918; uncle Jorgen Damn (1940), nephew Hartman Hinderaker who died of scarlet fever in 1933 and C.L. Madsen’s obituary noted that she and Ebba cared for him during the last years of his life. She lived with her mother, Petrina Madsen, for several years before Petrina’s death in 1941.
She married Clinton P. (C.P.) Swift on April 7, 1948, in Arlington, South Dakota. C.P Swift was an esteemed local banker. He worked at the Citizen’s State Bank in 1940 and was noted as the postmaster during the 1930s. He had three children from his first marriage to Ethel Lawton, who died in 1916. Nora’s step children included stepson Shirley Herbert and step daughters Rosella Frances and Jeanette Demaris.
Nora and Clinton moved to Sacramento, California, in 1954 after Clinton retired. In 1957, C.P. Swift suffered a severe stroke; however, he recovered well from that one according to the newspaper. They returned to Arlington in May, 1959, when they returned to Arlington and planned to build a new home. According to the 6 Aug 1959 Arlington Sun , Clinton had stood the trip home well; however in a matter of a few weeks he began to lose ground health-wise and was taken to the hospital and passed away at the Lake Preston Hospital on 4 August 1959.
Nora passed away March 12, 1964, at the Lake Preston Hospital following an illness of many weeks. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, with the Rev. Donald Klarup in charge. Music was furnished by soloist Mark Eldredge, accompanied by Mrs. Lyle Rapp. Interment was in the Arlington Cemetery by the side of her husband Clinton P. Swift.
Nora Secelia Madsen was born Feb. 14, 1897, near Arlington, South Dakota to Christ L. and Petrina Madsen. She died 12 March, 1964 at the Lake Preston Hospital, Lake Preston, South Dakota.
Nora attended Luther College at Austin, Minnesota and studied nursing at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, MN. The Arlington Sun noted on 22 June 1917 that she had “returned to St. Olaf Hospital…after visiting three weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Madsen. Miss Nora and Miss Evelyn Peterson have spent a number of years at St. Olaf Hospital and are now graduate nurses.”
At the time of the 1920 census, she was working in Manhattan, New York City, at the Woman’s Hospital. She worked in Manhattan for around ten years.
Nora returned from New York when her father became ill and provided nursing services for him. After her father’s death, she remained in Arlington and provided private nursing services for people near Arlington and Brookings for a number of years. She is noted as caring for her grandmother in Luck, Wisconsin, who passed away in June, 1918; uncle Jorgen Damn (1940), nephew Hartman Hinderaker who died of scarlet fever in 1933 and C.L. Madsen’s obituary noted that she and Ebba cared for him during the last years of his life. She lived with her mother, Petrina Madsen, for several years before Petrina’s death in 1941.
She married Clinton P. (C.P.) Swift on April 7, 1948, in Arlington, South Dakota. C.P Swift was an esteemed local banker. He worked at the Citizen’s State Bank in 1940 and was noted as the postmaster during the 1930s. He had three children from his first marriage to Ethel Lawton, who died in 1916. Nora’s step children included stepson Shirley Herbert and step daughters Rosella Frances and Jeanette Demaris.
Nora and Clinton moved to Sacramento, California, in 1954 after Clinton retired. In 1957, C.P. Swift suffered a severe stroke; however, he recovered well from that one according to the newspaper. They returned to Arlington in May, 1959, when they returned to Arlington and planned to build a new home. According to the 6 Aug 1959 Arlington Sun , Clinton had stood the trip home well; however in a matter of a few weeks he began to lose ground health-wise and was taken to the hospital and passed away at the Lake Preston Hospital on 4 August 1959.
Nora passed away March 12, 1964, at the Lake Preston Hospital following an illness of many weeks. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, with the Rev. Donald Klarup in charge. Music was furnished by soloist Mark Eldredge, accompanied by Mrs. Lyle Rapp. Interment was in the Arlington Cemetery by the side of her husband Clinton P. Swift.
Nora attended Luther College at Austin, Minnesota and studied nursing at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, MN. The Arlington Sun noted on 22 June 1917 that she had “returned to St. Olaf Hospital…after visiting three weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Madsen. Miss Nora and Miss Evelyn Peterson have spent a number of years at St. Olaf Hospital and are now graduate nurses.”
At the time of the 1920 census, she was working in Manhattan, New York City, at the Woman’s Hospital. She worked in Manhattan for around ten years.
Nora returned from New York when her father became ill and provided nursing services for him. After her father’s death, she remained in Arlington and provided private nursing services for people near Arlington and Brookings for a number of years. She is noted as caring for her grandmother in Luck, Wisconsin, who passed away in June, 1918; uncle Jorgen Damn (1940), nephew Hartman Hinderaker who died of scarlet fever in 1933 and C.L. Madsen’s obituary noted that she and Ebba cared for him during the last years of his life. She lived with her mother, Petrina Madsen, for several years before Petrina’s death in 1941.
She married Clinton P. (C.P.) Swift on April 7, 1948, in Arlington, South Dakota. C.P Swift was an esteemed local banker. He worked at the Citizen’s State Bank in 1940 and was noted as the postmaster during the 1930s. He had three children from his first marriage to Ethel Lawton, who died in 1916. Nora’s step children included stepson Shirley Herbert and step daughters Rosella Frances and Jeanette Demaris.
Nora and Clinton moved to Sacramento, California, in 1954 after Clinton retired. In 1957, C.P. Swift suffered a severe stroke; however, he recovered well from that one according to the newspaper. They returned to Arlington in May, 1959, when they returned to Arlington and planned to build a new home. According to the 6 Aug 1959 Arlington Sun , Clinton had stood the trip home well; however in a matter of a few weeks he began to lose ground health-wise and was taken to the hospital and passed away at the Lake Preston Hospital on 4 August 1959.
Nora passed away March 12, 1964, at the Lake Preston Hospital following an illness of many weeks. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, with the Rev. Donald Klarup in charge. Music was furnished by soloist Mark Eldredge, accompanied by Mrs. Lyle Rapp. Interment was in the Arlington Cemetery by the side of her husband Clinton P. Swift.
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