Person:Swannie Shoffner (1)

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Swannie Belle Shoffner
b.22 Apr 1918 Guilford County, North Carolina
d.27 Feb 2006 Australia
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  1. Mary Elizabeth Shoffner1914 - 2007
  2. James Richard Shoffner1915 - 2011
  3. Swannie Belle Shoffner1918 - 2006
  4. Georgia Emma Shoffner1920 - 2005
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Name Swannie Belle Shoffner
Gender Female
Birth[1] 22 Apr 1918 Guilford County, North Carolina
Marriage to Clinton A Johnson
Death? 27 Feb 2006 Australia
Burial? Guilford Memorial Gardens

Greensboro News & Record (NC) - March 14, 2006 Deceased Name: SWANNIE BELLE (SHOFFNER) JOHNSON AUSTRALIA- Swannie Belle (Shoffner) Johnson, passed away at Yallambee Hostel, Mundaring Western Australia on 27th February 2006, aged 87 years.

A memorial service will be held at Mt. Hope United Methodist Church of Christ on Saturday 24 June 2006 at 11 a.m. Swannie will be placed to rest beside her beloved husband, Johnny at Guilford Memorial Gardens.

Swannie was born on April 22, 1918, to Thomas J. and Nora Greeson Shoffner on a farm in Guilford County the third of nine children.

She is survived by sisters, Elizabeth Staley, Maggie Coble, Mazie Coulman and Osa Rea McAdoo and brothers, Richard, Thomas and Leonard Shoffner. Another sister, Georgie May, is deceased.

Swannie was a longtime resident of the Mt. Hope Community. She married Clinton "Johnny" Johnson, a Navy pilot in Miami, Fla., in 1944, and they resided in California, North Carolina and Western Australia. Swannie lived for the past 14 years in Australia with her daughter, Mary Ann Powell and granddaughter Holly. She was a hair dresser, beautician, pilot, U.S. Forestry Service fire spotter, nurse, wife, mother and grandmother. She loved her family and friends, husband, children and grandchild, cigarettes, ham biscuits, sherry and bluegrass music. She had a remarkable life and will be sadly missed and forever loved.

She is survived by children, Thomas Johnson of Cairnes, Queensland, Australia and Mary Ann Powell of Darlington, Western Australia and granddaughter Holly Powell.

Memorials may be made to Hospice.

Offer condolences at www. news-record.com/nr/obits/

References
  1. ↑ Guilford County Online Vitals - http:/66.162.203.229/vital/guilfordVitalSearch.php.

    FILE NUMBER: 1918901591YEAR: 1918BOOK: 0005PAGE: 1662VERSION: NV

    NAME AT BIRTH:SHOFFNER , SWANNIE BELLE

    ALTERNATE SPELLINGS:No Alternate Spellings On File

    PARENTS NAME:THOMAS J SHOFFNER


    DATE OF BIRTH: 04 - 22 - 1918

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