Obit of S. A SWANSON (d.1935), Watonwan Co., MN
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 Submitter's note : (S. A. Swanson, was my great grandfather)
 
                S. A. Swanson,  State
                Fair Employee, Dies
Name: S. A. Swanson, for twenty years superintendent of construction at
the State Fair grounds
Died: Saturday June 22, at his home
Residence: 1475 West Minnehaha Street, St. Paul, Minn (for 25 years)
Age: 74
Chairman of the board of trustees of Zion Lutheran church, Lafond and Aldine street
Lutheran conference delegate (16 years)
Member: Midway lodge, A.F. and A.M.
Born: Smaland, Sweden
Came the United States in 1876, settled in Mankato
Married: 1888, Mankato
Spouse: Alma Ingwaldson
Moved to St. James for a short time before coming to St. Paul
Surviving: wife:
           sons: Carl A.
                 Oscar W., St. Paul
      daughters: Mrs. Herbert Johnson, Lake Crystal
                 Ebba, Los Angeles
                 Marion, Los Angeles
                 Helga, St. Paul
        brother: Otto, St. James
 seven grandchildren
     Friends called at A. E. Henry Chapel, 536 No. Snelling Ave.
Funeral services: 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 24, Zion Lutheran church, St. Paul
Burial: Roselawn cemetery
Active pallbearers: Joseph Heenan
                    Gust Anderson
                    Nels Larson
                    Gust Carlson
                    Fred Swanstrom 
                    Charles Anderson
Honorary pallbearers: Henry Long
                      A. M. Sandberg
                      John Lindgren
                      John Wenstrom
                      John Thulin
                      P. M. Thulin
                      John Kask 
                      Edward Leaf 
                      Martin Ernst 
                      William Loman


         --St. Paul Dispatch
Name: Mr. Swanson
Land owner: Sec. 5, St. James Township 45 years ago
Land adjoining: J. M. Swanson family
Those from St. James attending the funeral in St. Paul:
Otto Swanson Sr.
John A. Swanson
Otto J. Swanson and Amos
J. H. Swanson and Irene
Mrs. Gust Anderson and Paul and Effie
Mrs. August Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Swanson
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Swanson

Watonwan County Plaindealer, July 18, 1935.
Died 22 June 1935.