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Betty SWEARS

Betty SWEARS

Female 1935 - 1983  (47 years)

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  • Name Betty SWEARS 
    Birth 10 Oct 1935  Montana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    News 28 Jun 1967  Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Obituary of Henry Ackaret
    Death 9 Jan 1983  [1
    Obituary 10 Jan 1983  [3
    • Betty Frances Neville, 47, longtime Idaho Falls nurse, died at a local hospital Jan 9, 1983 following a lengthy illness.

      She was born Oct. 10, 1935, at Lewistown, Mont. to Margaret Simpson and Walter Lumby.

      They moved to Idaho Falls when she was two years old and she attended Idaho Falls and Shlley schools.

      She received her nurse's training at Sacred Heart Hospital in Idaho Falls and was a nurse for 22 years in Idaho Falls.She She worked in Blackfoot and had been employed at Riverview Nursing Home for the last five years. She also worked for Good Samaritan Nursing Home.

      She married Claude Rackham in 1953 in Idaho Falls and they were later divorced.
      She married Robert Perkins in 1961 in Ogden, Utah and they later divorced.

      In 1969, she married Joe Neville in Idaho Falls and they later separated.

      She was a member of the Lily Rebekah Lodge No. 33 and was active in bowling leagues.

      She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church.

      She was preceded in death by her twin brother, Bobby Swears.

      Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Trina Tremayne and Mrs. Lisa Perkins, both of Idaho Falls; her mother, Margaret Ackerat, Idaho Falls; her father, Walter Lumby, Firth; one sister, Mrs. Ellen Blackburn,; one brother, Ray Lumby, Idaho Falls, and three grandchildren.

      Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Williams Funeral Chapel with Pastor William H. Warren of the Calvary Baptist Church officiating. The family will meet friends Tuesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
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    Burial Bonneville, Idaho Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I23  Stanwood Family
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2021 

    Father Frank B SWEARS,   b. Abt 1905, Montana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Margaret Louise SIMPSON,   b. 1902, Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Nov 1988, Idaho, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jul 1932  Lewiston (Historical), Jefferson, Montana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F314  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family RACKHAM 
    Children 
     1. Trina RACKHAM
    Family ID F956  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2024 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S1166] Find A Grave, 6 December 2014; memorial page for Betty E. Neville Swears (1935-1983), Find A Grave Memorial no. 81,335,837.
      Citing Ammon Cemetery, Ammon, Bonneville County, Idaho; the accompanying photograph submitted by user Bill E. Doman contains a legible image of the inscribed data.
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    2. [S1154] NEWS: The Post-Register, Henry Ackaret Dies In Hospital; 28 June 1967; Henry Ackaret, p. 2, c. 6; 14 September 2015.
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    3. [S1619] DB: Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007, 12 September 2015; entry for Betty Frances Neville, citing The Post Register, 10 January 1983.
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    4. [S1703] DB: Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950, 6 December 2014; entry for Frank B. Swears Jr and Magaret L. Edwards, m. 13 July 1932.
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