Beckham Co. - Obit for Mabel Swopes Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Oklahoma Mabel Swopes ELK CITY, Okla. - Mabel Swopes, 98, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Whinery-Savage Funeral Service Chapel with the Rev. Daniel Pulver officiating. Burial will be at Fairlawn Cemetery. Mrs. Swopes was born Jan. 7, 1906, near Hamburg to Lottie and O.F. Selby. She married Thomas E. Swopes on Dec. 2, 1922, at Rankin. Survivors include two sons, Thomas F. Swopes of Noble and Jack Swopes of Elk City; a daughter, Sylvia Norman of Stinnett, Texas; 14 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and 41 great-great-grandchildren. Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 27, 2004