SCHWEER OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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SCHWEER, Lucinda Elizabeth HOLLOWAY 1869 - 1953

Nov 26 1953 - Former Pastor Reads Rites For Mrs. Schweer - Funeral services for 
Mrs. George W. Schweer were conducted Nov. 16 at the family home in Clinton by 
Rev. G. S. Birkhead, assisted by the Rev.G. W. Schweer, son of J. C. Schweer. Rev. 
Birkhead was formerly Mrs. Schweer's pastor at Windsor. Burial was in Laurel 
Oak cemetery in that city, with the Huston-Turner Funeral Home in charge of 
arrangements. Mrs. Schweer was laid to rest at the side of her husband, who 
preceded her in death August 12, 1935. Music at the service was presented by a 
quartet from the Christian Church in Clinton with Mrs. James Marks at the piano. 
Two of Mrs. Schweer's favorite hymns were sung - In the Garden and God Will 
Take Care of You, both songs she was often heard humming while at work about 
her home. A recording of Brahm's Cradle Song, a favorite selection of her 
daughter, Miss Ann, was played softly while guests assembled for the service. 
Pallbearers were A. D. Sadler, Mark Wilson, Guy Schweer, of Clinton; J. C. 
Schweer of Parkville; Elmo Witcher, Union, Mo., and Rylan Lampkin of Appleton 
City, Mo. - Mrs. Schweer passed away at 10:30 a. m. Saturday, November 14, at St. 
Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City. She had fallen on the walk at her home on North 
Third Street in Clinton on October 16 and suffered a serious fracture of the hip 
bone. Her daughter, Miss Ann Schweer, who teaches in Jefferson City, came to 
Clinton immediately and took her mother to the hospital in Jefferson City, where 
she could have the attention of a bone specialist and where she could be nearby 
for a daily personal visit with her mother. Mrs. Schweer had excellent health all 
of her life up to the time of her fall. She had never before had any serious illness 
or been in a hospital for care. She stood the operation on her leg very well. It 
required placing five bone splinters together, held in place by a stainless steel 
band attached to the bone. She improved daily and seemed quite well early in the 
morning of her death. A sudden heart attack lasting only thirty seconds came 
without apparent pain just before her death on November 14, just one month 
after her fall. Mrs. Schweer's sweet personality had made her a favorite patient 
at the hospital and she had endeared herself to the many nurses who gave her 
special personal attention and expert care. Mrs. Lucina Elizabeth Holloway 
Schweer was born January 16, 1869 in Maries County, Missouri, a daughter of 
George B. and Sarah Huffman Holloway. She moved to a farm home in Benton 
County, Mo., near Santiage, when a child and here she attended the rural schools 
and spent her girlhood days. In 1898, she was married to George W. Schweer, who 
at that time owned and operated a general store in Windsor, Mo. Mr. Schweer later 
served twelve years as postmaster of Windsor. He organized the Missouri Union 
Telephone Company, of which he became manager. This company put in the first 
telephones in Henry County. Mrs. Schweer was a devoted and loyal mother to Mr. 
Schweer's five children, as she was to her own two daughters and one son later 
born to her. Patience and understanding were marked characteristics of her 
personality. Mr. and Mrs. Schweer and family were all members of the Christian 
Church of Windsor. In 1917, the family moved to Clinton, where Mr. Schweer 
could better attend to his duties as manager of the Missouri Union Telephone 
Company. They transferred their church membership to the First Christian Church 
of Clinton. Surviving Mrs. Schweer are: her son, T. R. Schweer of Sao Paulo, 
Brazil, who is with the Federal Express Co.; Mrs. Harry F. Covington of Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil, whose husband is president and manager of the Federal Express 
Company; Miss Ann Schweer, a teacher in the Simonsen High School at Jefferson 
City. Other survivors include Miss Cora Schweer and Mrs. Lillian Schweer Witcher 
of Union, Mo.; Guy Schweer of Clinton, Mo.; J. C. Schweer of Parkville, Mo.; and E. 
W. Schweer of Bremerton, Wash. Mrs. Schweer has two brothers and two sisters 
in Windsor who survive her. They are Walter Holloway, Arthur Holloway, Miss 
Rose Holloway and Mrs. Martha Blaney. Louis Holloway of Albuquerque, N. M., also 
survives, as do twelve grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. 


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