Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Geraldine Jewell Swafford
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 3/24/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
MARCH 24, 2002

GEARLDINE "JEWEL" SWAFFORD
 Tahlequah-Funeral services for Gearldine "Jewel" Swafford, age 57, of Peggs, 
will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at Peggs Community Church with 
Pastor Don Reed officiating.  Burial will follow in the New Home Cemetery, under 
the direction of Hart Funeral Home.
     Serving as pallbearers will be Frank Yandell, Lee Shafer, Jason Kerfoot, 
Billy Swafford, Keith Moore and Richard Swafford.  Honorary pallbearers will be 
Justin, Jason and Phillip Swafford and Jody Mandella.
     Jewell Swafford, daughter of Elbert Harrison Spears and Ruth (Murray) 
Spears-Keahey, was born April 8, 1944 in Muskogee, and departed this life on 
Friday, March 22, 2002 at her residence in Peggs, after reaching the age of 57 
years, 11 months and 14 days.
     A resident of the area for 26 years, Jewell moved here from Colton, Calif. 
in 1976.  A homemaker and amateur horticulturist, she loved quilting, sewing, 
and growing beautiful flower and vegetable gardens.  Jewell also enjoyed any 
outdoor activity, especially bird watching and fishing.  Most of all , she 
adored time spent with her family and friends.  Jewell was of the Christian 
faith, loved everyone she met, and will be missed by all who knew her.
     She was preceded in death by her father and two sisters, Ruby Lois Spears 
and Velma Jean Patterson.
     On Feb. 4, 1963, Jewell married James W. Swafford Sr. in Sayre, Oklahoma.  
He survives her, along with her mother, Ruth Keahey, of Sayre; two daughters, 
Donna Mandella and her husband Jody of San Antonio, Texas and Christine Ragsdale 
and husband Charlie, of Fort Gibson;  two sons, James Swafford Jr. of 
Bartlesville and Wesley Swafford and wife, Traci, of  Salina; two sisters, 
Stella Jenkins and husband, Bob, of Tulsa and Rowena Kerfoot and husband Royce 
of Wichita, Kan.; four brothers, Elbert Spears and wife Debra, of  Colorado 
Springs, colo., Carl Keahey and wlife, Janice, of Erick, Okla., Edward Keahey of 
Sayre and Donald Keahey of Dodge City , Kan.; eight grandchildren, Alyssa and 
Kindra Swafford, both of Salina, Mathew Swafford of Muskogee, Cody and Dakotah 
Swafford of Wagoner and Dustin, Amanda, and Emily Moore, all of Fort Gibson; as 
well as many friends and loved ones.