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Amarillo Globe News 17 May 1997

G.W. Swimmer

SUNRAY - G.W. Swimmer, 86, died Friday, May 16, 1997.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Morrison Funeral Directors Memorial 
Chapel at Dumas with Sister Roena Sanders, lay minister from Sunray, and 
Darla Newbold, niece, officiating. Burial will be in Lane Memorial 
Cemetery at Sunray.

Mr. Swimmer was born in Vian, Okla., and had been a resident of Sunray 
since 1947. He was a crane operator for Pott Ash. He was a member of the 
Pentecostal Assembly of God.

He married Lucille Esther Baker in 1939 at Geary, Okla. She died in 1996.

Survivors include three sons, Lonnie Swimmer of Clinton, Okla., Donnie 
Swimmer of Sunray and Terry Swimmer of Dumas; a daughter, Yvonne Bradshaw 
of Denver; three sisters, Arietta Linton of Belen, N.M., Jackie Ellison of 
Texhoma, Okla., and Christina Kurger of Michigan; 14 grandchildren; and 10 
great-grandchildren.

The family will be at 1221 Mills. They request memorials be to the 
Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Panhandle Chapter, 715 Lamar St., 
Amarillo, Texas 79106.

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Amarillo Globe News 18 May 1997

G.W. Swimmer

SUNRAY - G.W. Swimmer, 86, died Friday, May 16, 1997.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Morrison Funeral Directors Memorial 
Chapel at Dumas with Sister Roena Sanders, lay minister from Sunray, and 
Darla Newbold, niece, officiating. Burial will be in Lane Memorial 
Cemetery at Sunray.

Mr. Swimmer was born in Vian, Okla., and had been a resident of Sunray 
since 1947. He was a crane operator for Pott Ash. He was a member of the 
Pentecostal Assembly of God.

He married Lucille Esther Baker in 1939 at Geary, Okla. She died in 1996.

Survivors include three sons, Lonnie Swimmer of Clinton, Okla., Donnie 
Swimmer of Sunray and Terry Swimmer of Dumas; a daughter, Yvonne Bradshaw 
of Denver; three sisters, Arietta Linton of Belen, N.M., Jackie Ellison of 
Texhoma, Okla., and Christina Kurger of Michigan; 14 grandchildren; and 10 
great-grandchildren.

The family will be at 1221 Mills. They request memorials be to the 
Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Panhandle Chapter, 715 Lamar St., 
Amarillo, Texas 79106.
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