Submitted by: Diane Brown

South Bend Tribune
St. Joseph Co., Indiana
Aug. 7, 1976

H. Wayne Swigart, 82, of 2029 Berkley Place, died at 6:35 a.m. today in the Morningside Nursing Home, after a two-week illness. He retired from Studebaker Corp. as foreman of the paint department. He was born May 20, 1894, in Farmer City, Ill., and had lived here for 65 years after coming from Farmer City. He was married on Dec. 20, 1915, in South Bend, to Marie Brown, who died on Feb. 16, 1975. He is survived by two sisters-in-law, Miss Clara Brown and Mrs. Mildred Ranson, both of South Bend.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William, with Rev. Gary Forbes, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Swigart was a member of North Liberty Lodge 266 F&AM, from which he had received the Award of Gold. He also was a member of the Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend.