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Albert Edward Swanlund

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Albert Edward Swanlund

Birth
Lost Grove Township, Webster County, Iowa, USA
Death
1 May 1968 (aged 81)
Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Dayton, Webster County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 2
Memorial ID
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Dayton Review
May 8, 1968

Services held for Albert Swanlund, 81, Saturday, May 4

Funeral services for Albert E. (Barney) Swanlund, 81, were held Saturday, May 4 in the Dayton Methodist Church. Rev. Donald Samuelson officiated at the 1:30 p.m. service.

Mr. Swanlund passed away at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge Wednesday, May 1. He had been a patient at the hospital for the past ten weeks.

During the service music was presented by Ed Longworth, accompanied by Mrs. Carl Benson. Mrs. Glen Beckman and Mrs. Roberta McIlvain were in charge of the flowers.

Interment was held in the Dayton Cemetery. Military graveside rites were conducted by the Dayton Peterson Post No. 323 of the American Legion. The Carson Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Swanlund was born to Charles and Caroline Nelson in Webster County and lived his entire life in the area with the exception of time spent serving in World War I. He was inducted September 4, 1918 at Fort Dodge and was in the medical hospital in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas until his discharge on January 5, 1920. He was a member of the Peterson Post No. 323 of the American Legion of Dayton, Iowa.

Barney farmed with is brother, Theodore L. Swanlund and later went into the trucking business. He also worked for the Webster County Maintenance Department until his retirement due to illness in 1951. Since that time he has resided in Fort Dodge and for the past two years he lived at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Mae Wagner, Des Moines; and Mrs. Jennie Miskimins of El Paso, Texas. Other survivors are Mrs. Elsie Forslund of Harcourt; Mrs. Betty Habben, Pioneer; Mrs. Ione Rogers, Delhi; Mrs. Ruth Winters, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Dr. J. H. Miskimins of El Paso, Texas.
Dayton Review
May 8, 1968

Services held for Albert Swanlund, 81, Saturday, May 4

Funeral services for Albert E. (Barney) Swanlund, 81, were held Saturday, May 4 in the Dayton Methodist Church. Rev. Donald Samuelson officiated at the 1:30 p.m. service.

Mr. Swanlund passed away at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge Wednesday, May 1. He had been a patient at the hospital for the past ten weeks.

During the service music was presented by Ed Longworth, accompanied by Mrs. Carl Benson. Mrs. Glen Beckman and Mrs. Roberta McIlvain were in charge of the flowers.

Interment was held in the Dayton Cemetery. Military graveside rites were conducted by the Dayton Peterson Post No. 323 of the American Legion. The Carson Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Swanlund was born to Charles and Caroline Nelson in Webster County and lived his entire life in the area with the exception of time spent serving in World War I. He was inducted September 4, 1918 at Fort Dodge and was in the medical hospital in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas until his discharge on January 5, 1920. He was a member of the Peterson Post No. 323 of the American Legion of Dayton, Iowa.

Barney farmed with is brother, Theodore L. Swanlund and later went into the trucking business. He also worked for the Webster County Maintenance Department until his retirement due to illness in 1951. Since that time he has resided in Fort Dodge and for the past two years he lived at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Mae Wagner, Des Moines; and Mrs. Jennie Miskimins of El Paso, Texas. Other survivors are Mrs. Elsie Forslund of Harcourt; Mrs. Betty Habben, Pioneer; Mrs. Ione Rogers, Delhi; Mrs. Ruth Winters, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Dr. J. H. Miskimins of El Paso, Texas.


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