Obituaries: Annie Machen Swanson, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 27, 1939 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. Annie Swanson Dies Saturday A. M. Following Illness

Funeral Services Sunday P. M. at First Baptist Church

Mrs. Annie Machen Swanson, member of one of Winn Parish's pioneer families,
died in a hospital in Monroe early last Saturday morning following an illness
of about two weeks.

Funeral services were held here Sunday at two-thirty o'clock at the First
Baptist Church of which she was a member, conducted by the Rev. H. H. McBride,
pastor, assisted by Rev. G. A. Morgan, pastor of the First Methodist Church,
and Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.  Interment was
in Winnfield Cemetery under direction of Walsh Funeral Home.

Mrs. Swanson was the daughter of the Frank and Martha Machen, who with their
respective families came here from Georgia when small children.  The deceased
was born on November 3, 1875 near Winnfield.  January 25, 1899 she was married
to Carl M. Swanson and to them four children were born, one of whom, Clyde
Fittz Swanson, survives.  Mr. Swanson died in 1936.

Mr. and Mrs. Swanson for more than 30 years owned and operated Swanson's
Restaurant here and during their period of service they rendered themselves
to the local people as well as hundreds of others who frequently or 
occasionally came to Winnfield.  After Mr. Swanson's death Mrs. Swanson 
continued the business and that she was one of the most beloved women of this
section was attested to by the large attendance at the last rites on Sunday.

Besides her son, Clyde Fittz Swanson and one grandchild, Clyde, Jr., Mrs.
Swanson is survived by one brother, T. D. Machen of Linden, Texas, and a
number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers at the funeral services included Bryant Sholars, G. M. Walsworth,
B. L. Anderson, V. L. Brumfield, J. D. Wright, John Emerson, L. F. Morrison,
and E. P. Heard.