Person:Metta Driver (1)

Address: Address 1: At death Traffic Way City: Arroyo Grande State: California

On the 1870 census, she is Nettie, four years old.

Their children

Dr. Hubert O. Swarthout Birth: 7 JUL 1888 D: Feb 1985 Glendale, California 91206 Occupation: Medical Writer, Doctor/ Missionary SSN: 555-44-4159 m. Daisy Buktka Birth: 8 Dec 1888 D: Oct 1985 Glendale, California 91206 SSN: 555-21-7298 Address in 1948: Rt. Box 536, Arroyo Grande, CA

Florence Swarthout Birth: 22 JUN 1893 Death: Arroyo Grande, San Lius Obispo, California m. Dr. Floyd Smith

SMITH, FLORENE S Social Security #: 547094661 Birth Date: 23 Jun 1892 Birthplace: MICHIGAN Death Date: 12 Jan 1994 Death Place: 92354 Loma Linda, San Bernardino, CA Mother's Maiden Name: DRIVER Father's Surname: SWARTOUT

From the San Luis Obispo - Paso Robles Area, California City Directory, 1961

Smith, Floyd W. (Florene) med officer County Health Dept. r Traffic Way PO Box 95 Arroyo Grande

From Driver Memoirs, written by Byron Driver's family - from Joyce Bowers

... Florence, who became a missionary to India and Hubert, who went to China as a missionary [Seventh Day Adventist missionaries]... After three years of service they both retired in California where their parents had retired some years earlier, after selling the old farm.

Remembering Florene and Floyd's last visit to our parent's home, she so wanted to take the large wall photograph of John and Angeline which hung on Mom's wall. Mom gave it to her and she took it back to California with her... their last days at our grandparents home while recovering from the effects of shots taken for foreign protection. Daisy felt quite ill. She said if she could take me with her I would be an asset. Missionaries who had a helper were held in higher esteem.

Hubert also became a medical writer and sent a book... Their record shows one child - born in India. The child may have been adopted, but I am not sure.

For her death certificate, her son said her father, John Wesley Driver, was born in Virginia.

Obituary from San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune Thurs 16 Dec 1948

Mrs. Swartout Killed by Car Mrs. Metta Elizabeth Swartout, mother of county health officer, Dr. Hubert C. Swartout, was instantly killed last night at 7:15 when she was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Dorothea O'Dell Waterman on highway 101 in Arroyo Grande.

She was 83 years of age.

The fatality occurred as Mrs. Swartout was walking north on the right edge of the state highway and was hit by the car in a darkened area near the Leedham lane intersection, the Arroyo Grande police reported. Speed of the Waterman car was estimated at 30 miles per hour at the time of the accident.

No charges will be forthcoming from the police department, although an inquest will be held this afternoon, according to officials.

Mrs. Waterman lives on route 1, Arroyo Grande. Administering aid at the accident was Dr. H.O. Swartout, Pismo Beach.

A resident of Arroyo Grande for the past two and a half years, Mrs. Swartout was walking to church when the accident occurred.

Born Sept. 10, 1865, in Michigan, she is survived by her husband, Charles Edward Swartout; a son, a daughter, four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held in the Arroyo Grande Seventh Day Adventist church Sunday at 2 p.m., Rev. L.S. Melendy will officiate.

Burial will be in the Arroyo Grande cemetery.

1. ↑ Researcher.

   Joyce Matthews Bowers