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Susie Elizabeth SWADLEY MESSICK

East Oakland Cemetery
Baxter County,
Arkansas

Born April 19, 1908, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.
Died December 10, 2008, Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Daughter of Christian Edward & Susie Elizabeth Moppin Swadley.
Married Whitley Woodson Messick, October 9, 1924, Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas.

Obituary from Roller Funeral Homes Website:

Mrs. Susie Elizabeth Messick, age 100, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, died Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at Pine Lane Healthcare in Mountain Home.
A visitation will be from Noon-9:00 P.M. Friday at Roller Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 6-8:00 P.M. The funeral service will be at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at the Mountain Home Church of Christ at College and North Streets with Brother Ken Burton officiating.

Interment will follow in East Oakland Cemetery.

She was born April 19, 1908, in Springfield, Missouri, to Christian Edward and Susie Elizabeth Moppin Swadley. She and her family moved to Mountain Home in a covered wagon. On October 9, 1924, she married Whitley Woodson Messick in Mountain Home and was a lifetime area native.
Mrs. Messick was a member of the Oakland Church of Christ before becoming a member of the Mountain Home Church of Christ. She was a hard-working homemaker who enjoyed raising vegetables and flowers in her garden and had worked for a few years as a cook at the Panther Bay Café.

Survivors are: a son: Joe (Edith) Messick: Mountain Home; a daughter: Wilma (Walter) Starr: Beebe, Arkansas; a brother: Mosie Swadley: Mountain Home; a sister: Eva Messick: Kuna, Idaho; 13 grandchildren; a host of great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild; and a host of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a daughter: Bessie Maynard; 3 brothers and 4 sisters.

Memorials may be made to the Paragould Children’s Home, Paragould, Arkansas.

(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 1/18/11 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 1/18/11 • Approved: 1/18/11 • Last Updated: 7/29/12 • R449083-G449082-S3

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