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Mary Lee Foster Swenson

Birth: 29 Dec 1896
McGregor, McLennan County, Texas, USA
Death: 29 May 1978 (aged 81)
Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA
Burial: Dumont Cemetery

Dumont, King County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 15662773 View Source

Methodist Hospital Lubbock, Texas. Usual Residence - 1205 West Harris Street Spur, Dickens County, Texas.

Mary Lee [Foster] Swenson was an amazing cook & the cowboys on the SMS Ranches were treated to her cooking whenever there were special events, there was another family that lived in the Cookhouse & took care of the daily cowboy feedings. The Swensons usually lived on the SMS Ranches since Theodor, her husband was the SMS Windmiller & jack of all trades from building barns & fabricating cattle guards to building watering troughs for the animals, whatever needed to be done they called Theodor on the SMS Ranches.

Granddaughter to;

William B Foster
1813–
Bethena Kennedy
1819–1895

&

Henry Stevens Harris
1847–1933
Mehulda E Bonds
1847–

Contact me for death certificate etc...

Methodist Hospital Lubbock, Texas. Usual Residence - 1205 West Harris Street Spur, Dickens County, Texas.

Mary Lee [Foster] Swenson was an amazing cook & the cowboys on the SMS Ranches were treated to her cooking whenever there were special events, there was another family that lived in the Cookhouse & took care of the daily cowboy feedings. The Swensons usually lived on the SMS Ranches since Theodor, her husband was the SMS Windmiller & jack of all trades from building barns & fabricating cattle guards to building watering troughs for the animals, whatever needed to be done they called Theodor on the SMS Ranches.

Granddaughter to;

William B Foster
1813–
Bethena Kennedy
1819–1895

&

Henry Stevens Harris
1847–1933
Mehulda E Bonds
1847–

Contact me for death certificate etc...

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married Sept 11 1918

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Parents

Spouse

Olof Theodore Cyrillus Swenson

1883–1973 (m. 1918)

Siblings

Children

Olof Earl "Swede" Swenson

1922–2002

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Maintained by: Jen Walston Harris Hill
Originally Created by: Knightchow
Added: Sep 8, 2006
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15662773/mary_lee-swenson: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Lee Foster Swenson (29 Dec 1896–29 May 1978), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15662773, citing Dumont Cemetery, Dumont, King County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Jen Walston Harris Hill (contributor 47107475).

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