Obit of Essie Marie Swettman (s355) - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 26 Oct 2003 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm +========================================================================+ USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Swettman Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/894 Essie Marie Swettman Per the request of Essie Marie Swettman, no services were held. Arrangements were by Virgil T. Golden Funeral Services of Salem, Oregon. She was born in Big Canyon and graduated from Dougherty High School in 1933 and from East Central Teacher's College, now East Central University. She taught school for several years in Dougherty, Big Canyon and Oklahoma City. During WWII, she was an instructor in the Army Air Force Technical School in Amarillo, Texas as an instrument teacher. She left Amarillo to go to Sao Paulo, Brazil to teach English in a Brazilian Technical School, "Escola Tecnica de Aviacon." After returning to the United States, she taught in Westfield, N.J. and in Muncie, Indiana. She married William Swettman in 1947 in Plainsfield, N.J. After moving to Salem in 1954, she taught for several years in the Salem Public Schools. She was a member of the First Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William; her parents, R.E. and Maggie Barrett; brothers, Robert, Eugene and Ted Freeman; sisters, Zora Hunter, Francis Clemons and Lois Buzzard. Survivors include two sons, William P. (Bill) Swettman Jr. and wife, Colleen, Camas, Wash. and Robert B. (Bob) Swettman and wife, Dee, Salem, Oreg.; four grandchildren; two great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and many friends in the Dougherty, Sulphur and Davis area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm