Tom Green County, TX - R.E. Swank

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San Angelo Standard-Times, Sunday, 9 Oct 1927

R.E. Swank, 76, Is Dead

Funeral of Aged Man at Grape Creek Friday Afternoon

   R.E. Swank, 76 years old, ill for the last year from a
complication of causes, died at 5 o'clock 
   Thursday afternoon at the home near Carlsbad.  The funeral
services were conducted there at 3 
   o'clock Friday afternoon and interment was at the Grape Creek
cemetery at 4, the service being 
   conducted by the Reverend Wooster, chaplain at Sanatorium.  The
Johnson's Funeral Parlor had charge.
   Mr. Swank had resided in this community since 1911, except for a
short time when he went to Kansas.  
   He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Tempy Swank, 65, and four
daughters.  They are:  Mrs. Ben Gormley, 
   of Kansas City; Mrs. Addie Nichols, of Los Angeles; Mrs. A.F.
Collett, of Carlsbad; and Mrs. C.S. 
   Bewick, of Big Lake.  Only Mrs. Collett and Mrs. Bewick of the
daughters were at the funeral.
   Mrs. A.R. Darrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Collett, came in from
Dallas for the funeral.
   Mr. Collett, at Sweetwater, with his show herd of Jerseys, was
called home Thursday night by the death. 

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