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Surnames: DOWDEN, SARGENT, SWANGO, WALDRIDGE, WEBB
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, January 27, 1955,Volume
LXXX, Number 15, Page 1, Column 4, “Mrs. Artie Swango Taken by Death—Last Rites Tomorrow
For Owensburg Resident.” [Transcribed January 21, 2004 from microfilm of the original
newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Baptist Church
in Owensburg for Mrs. Artie Mace SWANGO, mother of Mrs. Freeda DOWDEN, of Bloomfield.
Rev. Merla CRAIG will officiate, and burial will be in the Owensburg Cemetery. The body
will lie in state at the Lehman Funeral Home in Owensburg until the hour of the services.
Mrs. SWANGO passed away at 12:40 o’clock yesterday morning at her Owensburg residence
following an illness of about four weeks. The daughter of William and Mary (WEBB)
SARGENT, she was born September 20, 1876, in Martin County. She had resided in the
Owensburg community for many years and was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include the husband, Dick SWANGO, to whom she was united in marriage on October
27, 1900; two daughters, Mrs. DOWDEN, of Bloomfield, and Mrs. Anna Mary WALDRIDGE, of
Owensburg; three sons, Emery and Rupert SWANGO, of Owensburg, and Darrell SWANGO, of
Bloomfield; three brothers, Everett SARGENT, of Terre Haute; Emery SARGENT, of Bloomfield,
and Charles SARGENT, of Patricksburg; 20 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
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Link to the Obituary of her husband, Richard SWANGO [1877IN—1871IN]:
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Link to the Obituary of her son, Zelbert SWANGO [1906IN—1938IN]
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Link to the Obituary of her grandson, James Elmo DOWDEN [1928IN—1998IN]:
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