Obituary:
Mrs. Arthia Swanson Funeral is Saturday
COLORADO CITY (SC) - Mrs. Arthia Swanson, 65, former Colorado City resident, died in Los Angeles, Calif. Sunday after an illness.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Mt. Zion Baptist Church here with burial in Mitchell County Cemetery under direction of Kiker and Son Funeral Home.
Mrs. Swanson was born in Milam County Nov. 13, 1903. She had lived in Colorado City 20 years before moving to Los Angeles in 1958. She was a member of the Payne Chapel Methodist Church.
Survivors include a son, Joe Rogers of Los Angeles; two brothers, Johnson Biggers of Colorado City and Carlie Biggers of Roswell, N.M.; two sisters, Sally Biggers of Roswell, N.M. and Bessie Rogers of Calvert, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
San Angelo Standard-Times, San Angelo, Texas · Friday, February 14, 1969, PG 10.
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Arthia was married twice in Milam County, TX:
18 Jan 1920, Charles C. Rogers.
23 Dec 1927, Harry Swanson, b. 4 Dec 1894, Baileyville, Milam County, TX (per his WWI Draft Registration Card).
On the 1940 US Census for Colorado City, Mitchell County, TX, Arthia is enumerated with her father Allen Biggers. She is listed as "Artha Rodgers", age 30, married, with her children:
Joe (19), Juanita (17), Martin (13), Allen (4) and Joe Ann Rodgers (4/12).
Contributor: Cliff Jones (50634135)
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Obituary:
Mrs. Arthia Swanson Funeral is Saturday
COLORADO CITY (SC) - Mrs. Arthia Swanson, 65, former Colorado City resident, died in Los Angeles, Calif. Sunday after an illness.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Mt. Zion Baptist Church here with burial in Mitchell County Cemetery under direction of Kiker and Son Funeral Home.
Mrs. Swanson was born in Milam County Nov. 13, 1903. She had lived in Colorado City 20 years before moving to Los Angeles in 1958. She was a member of the Payne Chapel Methodist Church.
Survivors include a son, Joe Rogers of Los Angeles; two brothers, Johnson Biggers of Colorado City and Carlie Biggers of Roswell, N.M.; two sisters, Sally Biggers of Roswell, N.M. and Bessie Rogers of Calvert, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
San Angelo Standard-Times, San Angelo, Texas · Friday, February 14, 1969, PG 10.
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Arthia was married twice in Milam County, TX:
18 Jan 1920, Charles C. Rogers.
23 Dec 1927, Harry Swanson, b. 4 Dec 1894, Baileyville, Milam County, TX (per his WWI Draft Registration Card).
On the 1940 US Census for Colorado City, Mitchell County, TX, Arthia is enumerated with her father Allen Biggers. She is listed as "Artha Rodgers", age 30, married, with her children:
Joe (19), Juanita (17), Martin (13), Allen (4) and Joe Ann Rodgers (4/12).
Contributor: Cliff Jones (50634135)
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