WELDON SWIGART

WELDON SWIGART, 97, OF CRESTON, IA DIED THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009 AT CREST HAVEN CARE CENTRE IN CRESTON. SERVICES WERE SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2009 AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN CRESTON. PASTOR ROBERT SAUSER AND REV. NORMAN HOAG OFFICIATED THE SERVICE. BURIEL WAS AT THE GRACELAND CEMETERY SOUTH OF CRESTON. MEMORIALS CAN BE MADE TO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND OR THE IOWA REGULAR BAPTIST CAMP IN VENTURA, IOWA. POWERS FUNERAL HOME IN CRESTON, IA WAS IN CHARGE OF THE ARRANGEMENTS.

WELDON C. SWIGART, SON OF GRANT SWIGART AND EVA MCANINCH  SWIGART WAS BORN ON JULY 17, 1911 IN RINGGOLD COUNTY IOWA.  HE ATTENDED THE CORN STALK COLLEGE COUNTRY SCHOOL.  ON FEBRUARY 12, 1936 WELDON WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO L. RUTH GILLILAND IN MOUNT AYR, IOWA.  THEY SETTLED ON A FARM IN KELLERTON, IOWA.  WELDON FARMED IN RINGGOLD, ADAMS, MADISON AND UNION COUNTIES UNTIL RETIRING IN 1976.  HE THEN WORKED FOR A LOCAL FUNERAL HOME FOR 15 YEARS.  HE WAS A MEMBER OF TH FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN CRESTON, WHERE HE WAS A DEACON, TRUSTEE, SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, YOUTH SPONSOR AND A CHOIR MEMBER.  HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION, FARM BUREAU FARMERS COOPERATIVE, SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN IN WINTERSET AND CHARTER MEMBER OF THE GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH. SURVIVORS INCLUDED TWO SONS, EARL (WIFE ELEANORE) SWIGART OF STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN AND MARVIN (WIFE FAYE) SWIGART OF PARKER, COLORADO; A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PHYLLIS SWIGART, OF UNION GROVE, WISCONSIN, A BROTHER-IN-LAW, LYLE AND WIFE JEAN GILLILAND OF MOUNT AYR, IOWA; TWO SISTER-IN-LAW, WILMA SWIGART AND DORIS SWIGART, BOTH OF LAMONI, IOWA; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; 20 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS AND FRIENDS.

WELDON WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS; WIFE RUTH IN 2008; TWO SONS, GLEN DAVID AND KENNETH DALE SWIGART; FOUR SISTERS, DORA BENNETT, DONNA GREIMANN, CLETA DIXON AND RUTH ARCHABALD; THREE BROTHERS, FRANCIS, MERRITT AND PAUL AND TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN BRANDON SWIGART AND MADISON SHAW.