Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Swatts, Robert Lee August 20, 1961
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Barnesville News-Gazette, August 1961
Funeral Services For Mr. R. L. Swatts
     Mr. Robert Lee Swatts, 97, died at his home on Forsyth St., Sunday noon, 
following an extended illness.
     A life-long resident of Barnesville, he was a member of the First 
Methodist Church, where he sang in the choir for 75 years.
     Mr. Swatts was a retired farmer and merchant and a member of Pinta Lodge 
No. 88 for 75 years.  He was Georgia's oldest Mason.  He received a citation 
for his long years of service in the Masons at special ceremonies held in his 
honor last year at his home.
     He was a graduate of Gordon Military College in the class of 1883 and was 
Gordon's oldest alumnus.
     Survivors include a son, Henry Hammond Swatts of Barnesville, who has 
been quite attentive to his father since the death of the late Mrs. Swatts 
several years ago; two grandsons, Henry Hammond Swatts, Jr., and John Robert 
Swatts of Opelika, Ala.; two great-grandchildren.
     Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the 
First Methodist Church in Barnesville.  The Rev. Sam H. Coker officiated.  
burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.  He was buried on his 97th birthday.
     Haisten Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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