Edna Maxine Swogar
06-30-1926 to 07-21-2019
Linn County News
Published July 31, 2019
Edna Maxine Swogar, 93, of Pittsburg, Kan., died on Sunday, July 21, 2019, at the Comfort Care Home in Pittsburg. She was born June 30, 1926, at Colorado Springs, Colo., the daughter of Warren and Alice Schrieve Smith.
Edna worked as a licensed practical nurse in long-term care for many years. At the age of 59 she decided to go back to college, where she attended the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Okla., and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mortuary Science. She was a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Kansas. She was raised in Colorado Springs and graduated from Colorado Springs High School.
She also enjoyed teaching at the adult education center. Her hobbies included bowling, going to the casinos, and playing board games and cards with family and friends.
She married Melvin “Bud” Everett Swogar on July 5, 1952, at Colorado Springs. He preceded her in death on April 7, 1985.
She was a member of the Victory Life Church in Pittsburg. She served in the Air Force National Guard as a lieutenant during World War II.
Survivors include five daughters, Dora (Ron) Ware, Pittsburg, Vickie (Randy) Heitz, Cherokee, Patty (Randy) Page, Blue Mound, Carolyn (Bill) Compton, Chanute, and Karen Shields, Jacksonville, Fla.; two sons, Warren Swogar, Texas, and Ronnie (Vivian) Swogar of Opie; two sisters, Alice (Ray) Adamscheck, Colorado Springs, and Betty (Bill) Hathaway, Pittsburg; and many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Bud; daughters Connie Swogar and Kathleen Zdziemborski; three brothers, Warren, Richard and Robert Smith; a sister, Arlene Smith; granddaughters Maxine Eubanks and Janet Mitchell; and great grandson Darren Bright.
Funeral services were scheduled at 10 a.m., Thursday, July 25, 2019, at the Bedene Funeral Home in Arma, Kan., with Pastor Donnie Talent officiating, with burial at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Cadmus, Kan. The family was to receive friends from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday at the Bedene Chapel at Arma.
The family suggests memorials to the Victory Life church in Pittsburg. Donations may be sent to or left at the Bedene Funeral Home, 517 E. Washington, Box 621, Arma, KS 66712.
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