WOMAN'S BODY FOUND BY SON IN LEHIGH DAM
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Mt. Top Resident Believed to Have Lost Her Footing While Taking Brief Hike Along Water
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Missing from her home for more than five hours, Mrs. Anna Swartwood, 51, of Mountain Top, was found drowned yesterday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley dam, located a short distance from her home and about a half mile from the railroad station.
Mrs. Swartwood, who took frequent hikes, is believed to have slipped and fell into the water while walking across the stone breast of the dam, formerly used to store water for locomotives.
Discovery of the body was made by a son, Richard, a senior at Fairview Township High School, who was summoned home by his worried father, Bruce D. Swartwood.
Dog Leads to Discovery
After a search of the neighborhood, the youth decided to follow the family dog to the dam and there discovered the body of his mother. The body has been removed to the Homer E. Graham Funeral Home, 324 South Franklin street, city, from where the funeral will be held on Thursday morning at 9 with a high mass of requiem in St. Catherine's Church at 10. Interment will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery, White Haven.
Mrs. Swartwood is reported to have left her home yesterday morning at -0. She stopped to chat with a neighbor and told her that she had to return home soon to do some ironing. She apparently continued her stroll through the countryside she knew so well for 30 years. The tragedy was not discovered until after 3 o'clock.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves three other children, Mrs. Gerald Hartman of Williamsport; Mrs. Joseph Novak of Miners Mills, and John Swartwood at home.
(Wilkes-Barre Evening News, 1 Apr 1941)
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Mt. Top Resident Believed to Have Lost Her Footing While Taking Brief Hike Along Water
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Missing from her home for more than five hours, Mrs. Anna Swartwood, 51, of Mountain Top, was found drowned yesterday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley dam, located a short distance from her home and about a half mile from the railroad station.
Mrs. Swartwood, who took frequent hikes, is believed to have slipped and fell into the water while walking across the stone breast of the dam, formerly used to store water for locomotives.
Discovery of the body was made by a son, Richard, a senior at Fairview Township High School, who was summoned home by his worried father, Bruce D. Swartwood.
Dog Leads to Discovery
After a search of the neighborhood, the youth decided to follow the family dog to the dam and there discovered the body of his mother. The body has been removed to the Homer E. Graham Funeral Home, 324 South Franklin street, city, from where the funeral will be held on Thursday morning at 9 with a high mass of requiem in St. Catherine's Church at 10. Interment will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery, White Haven.
Mrs. Swartwood is reported to have left her home yesterday morning at -0. She stopped to chat with a neighbor and told her that she had to return home soon to do some ironing. She apparently continued her stroll through the countryside she knew so well for 30 years. The tragedy was not discovered until after 3 o'clock.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves three other children, Mrs. Gerald Hartman of Williamsport; Mrs. Joseph Novak of Miners Mills, and John Swartwood at home.
(Wilkes-Barre Evening News, 1 Apr 1941)
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND BY SON IN LEHIGH DAM
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Mt. Top Resident Believed to Have Lost Her Footing While Taking Brief Hike Along Water
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Missing from her home for more than five hours, Mrs. Anna Swartwood, 51, of Mountain Top, was found drowned yesterday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley dam, located a short distance from her home and about a half mile from the railroad station.
Mrs. Swartwood, who took frequent hikes, is believed to have slipped and fell into the water while walking across the stone breast of the dam, formerly used to store water for locomotives.
Discovery of the body was made by a son, Richard, a senior at Fairview Township High School, who was summoned home by his worried father, Bruce D. Swartwood.
Dog Leads to Discovery
After a search of the neighborhood, the youth decided to follow the family dog to the dam and there discovered the body of his mother. The body has been removed to the Homer E. Graham Funeral Home, 324 South Franklin street, city, from where the funeral will be held on Thursday morning at 9 with a high mass of requiem in St. Catherine's Church at 10. Interment will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery, White Haven.
Mrs. Swartwood is reported to have left her home yesterday morning at -0. She stopped to chat with a neighbor and told her that she had to return home soon to do some ironing. She apparently continued her stroll through the countryside she knew so well for 30 years. The tragedy was not discovered until after 3 o'clock.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves three other children, Mrs. Gerald Hartman of Williamsport; Mrs. Joseph Novak of Miners Mills, and John Swartwood at home.
(Wilkes-Barre Evening News, 1 Apr 1941)
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Mt. Top Resident Believed to Have Lost Her Footing While Taking Brief Hike Along Water
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Missing from her home for more than five hours, Mrs. Anna Swartwood, 51, of Mountain Top, was found drowned yesterday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley dam, located a short distance from her home and about a half mile from the railroad station.
Mrs. Swartwood, who took frequent hikes, is believed to have slipped and fell into the water while walking across the stone breast of the dam, formerly used to store water for locomotives.
Discovery of the body was made by a son, Richard, a senior at Fairview Township High School, who was summoned home by his worried father, Bruce D. Swartwood.
Dog Leads to Discovery
After a search of the neighborhood, the youth decided to follow the family dog to the dam and there discovered the body of his mother. The body has been removed to the Homer E. Graham Funeral Home, 324 South Franklin street, city, from where the funeral will be held on Thursday morning at 9 with a high mass of requiem in St. Catherine's Church at 10. Interment will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery, White Haven.
Mrs. Swartwood is reported to have left her home yesterday morning at -0. She stopped to chat with a neighbor and told her that she had to return home soon to do some ironing. She apparently continued her stroll through the countryside she knew so well for 30 years. The tragedy was not discovered until after 3 o'clock.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves three other children, Mrs. Gerald Hartman of Williamsport; Mrs. Joseph Novak of Miners Mills, and John Swartwood at home.
(Wilkes-Barre Evening News, 1 Apr 1941)
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