City and State of residence: Casper, Wyoming
Name of deceased: Grace Ardith Swartz
Age of deceased: 82
Place of service: Newcomer Family Funeral Home in Casper, Wyoming
Date of service: Sunday, 04-30-2006
Time of service: 1:00 p.m
Officiating: Chaplain Ellis Kaster from Wyoming Medical Center
Date of death: 04-27-2006
Place of death: Wyoming Medical Center
Date of birth: 12-03-1923
Place of birth: Gering , Nebraska
Parents name: Earl and Ida Pray
Life History: After graduating from Gering High School, she moved to Kansas City MO. Where she worked for Black, Sivals, and Bryson.
While there, she met and married Leo Rooney, with whom she had 4 children. She moved to Casper in 1952 with her husband and helped in his insurance business. Mr.Rooney died in 1958. She married Harold Kaywood and he died shortly after their marriage in 1959.
In 1960 she married Fred Swartz and had one child with him. Mr. Swartz died in 1983.
After retiring from Mercer House in 1987, she satisfied her wanderlust by moving to North Dakota, Alaska, Maine and in 2000 back to her beloved Wyoming.
She loved the outdoors, meeting new people, and seeing new places.
She is survived by four sons. Joe Rooney of Bangor, ME, Ed Rooney and Mick Rooney of Camano Island, WA., and Chuck Swartz of Casper, WY Nine Grandchildren, and four great-grand children.
Preceded in Death:
By three husbands, and one daughter
Memorials:
Wyoming Bikers'Assoc, For the Wyoming Children Fund, PO Box 1875, Casper, Wyoming 82601
Newcomer Family Funeral Home will be in charge of the arrangements.