September 19, 2003

The ADVOCATE

Serving Anderson, Southern Franklin and Western Linn Counties

Volume 7, No. 75

Transcribed with permission of Vern Brown



Page 5, Column 4:



“Lee Holderman

Funeral services for Lee Holderman, 85, Parker, KS, are pending and will be announced later by

Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home, Osawatomie, KS.  Mr. Holderman died Tuesday night, September

16.”



“Gertrude Mary Swinney

1915-2003

Funeral services for Gertrude Mary Swinney, 88, Ottawa, KS, were Sunday, September 14, 2003,

at 2:00 p.m. at Dengel and Son Mortuary, Ottawa, with Pastor Bruce Beatty officiating. 

Interment was in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, KS.  Mrs. Swinney died Friday, September 12,

at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa.

Gertrude Mary Swinney was born May 22, 1915, at Garnett, KS, the daughter of Ferdinand J. and

Sophie M. (Mader) Peine.  She lived in Kansas City, KS, from 1939 to 1972, moving from there

to Parsons, KS, and then to Ottawa in 1983.  Gertrude was a lifelong homemaker.  She was a

member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post #5901 Auxiliary of Ottawa.

Gertrude and Fleetwood Swinney were married June 30, 1939, at Louisiana, MO.

Mrs. Swinney was preceded in death by her husband, Fleetwood Swinney, on April 24, 1982; her

parents, Ferdinand J. and Sophie M. Peine; her sisters, Dena Anderson, Margaret McGraw,

Cecelia Jackson, Albertina Tawney, and Frances Jackson; and her brothers, Joe T. Peine, Willie

Peine, and Aaron Peine.

Gertrude is survived by her daughter, Mary G. Howard, Granbury, TX; her son, Kenneth F.

Swinney, Ottawa, KS; her brother, Raymond Peine, Garnett; her grandchildren, Leslie Roark,

Tulsa, OK, Cathy Howard, Dallas, TX, Keely Long, Harrisburg, MO, Jon Swinney, Olathe, KS,

and Ken Swinney, Kansas City, MO; and her great-grandchildren, Nate Roark, Sam Roark, Derek

Cahn, Jacob Swinney, Janessa Swinney, Lorryn Swinney, and Lexie Swinney.

The family received friends on Saturday afternoon, September 13, from 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to Mid-America Nutrition Program and left in care of the

funeral home.

Dengel and Son Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.”





Transcribed for 

Anderson County

Kansas

USGENWEB

By:  Lulu B. Nixon