Notes:

The Carnegie Herald, May 14, 1975 Swarts Rites On Saturday Funeral services for Russell E. Swarts, Sr., 67, retired Carnegie fire chief, were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, may 10, in the First Christian church with Rev. Ward Botts of Enid, former pastor, officiating. Rev. Bob Williams, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, assisted. Swarts died Thursday, May 8, in the Carnegie Municipal Hospital. He was born March 5, 1908 in Oklahoma, and moved to Carnegie with his parents in 1909. He joined the Carnegie Fire Department in 1943, and served as fire chief from 1953 to 1963. He was a retired mechanic and a member of the First Christian church. Survivors include his wife, Ora of the home; two sons, Russell, Jr. of Oklahoma City and Bob of San Antonio; his mother, Mrs. Fred Swarts of Carnegie; two sisters, Goldia Hibbard and Margaret English of Anadarko; and five grandchildren, Suzanne, mark and Libby Swarts of Oklahoma, Robert and Scott Swarts of San Antonio.

Buried:
Carnegie Cemetery

Russell married Ora Marie Fodge on 24 Dec 1927 in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma, USA. Ora (daughter of Arthur Aaron Fodge and Gertrude Ellen Skinner) was born on 16 Feb 1910 in Fort Towson, Choctaw, Oklahoma, USA; died on 27 Aug 1979 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in 1979 in Carnegie, Caddo, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Fodge Swarts, Sr. was born on 5 Feb 1939 in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma, USA; died on 31 Oct 2001 in Merry Point, Lancaster, Virginia, USA; was buried on 29 Nov 2001 in Arlington, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
2. Living Swarts