OBIT: Lillian (FLETCHER) SWIFT, 1968, Bedford, Bedford County, PA

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LILLIAN SWIFT

Of 540 E. Penn St., Bedford, died yesterday morning in Bedford Memorial 
Hospital. She was born at Bedford Sept. 26, 1897, a daughter of John C. 
and Leah (Klotz) Fletcher, and married Richard E. Swift, who died in 
1951. A graduate of Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Altoona, she had 
served as a private duty nurse, residing in Atlantic City, N.J., for 35 
years prior to returning to Bedford in 1965. Surviving are seven 
brothers and sisters, Mrs. H. L. McGraw of Johnstown, Charles S. of 
Hollidaysburg, Mrs. Margaret Grissinger, Harry H. and Mrs. Robert H. 
Hammer of Bedford, Mrs. E. C. Dively of Lewisburg, W.Va., and Eugene C. 
of Washington, Pa. Mrs. Swift was a member of St. James Episcopal 
Church, Bedford, Atlantic City Nurses Association and the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. Friends will be received in the Keller Funeral 
Home, Bedford, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today.

Altoona Mirror, December 23, 1968