Notes submitted by Shelley Moats Davis

OBITUARY
SWANEY SERVICES
Funeral services for Otto Swaney, who died in the Uniontown hospital Monday, October 15, at 12:40
a.m. from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening, will be held at his home near
Haydentown Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Mr. Morgan officiating. Burial will be in the Maple
Grove cemetery, Fairchance.

Mr. Swaney is survived by his mother, Mrs. Hannah Swaney; three brothers. William at home, Charles of
Fairchance and Harry of Smithfleid, and eight sisters, Corfa, Ida, and Mrs. Rose Gray at home, Mrs.
Emerson Cooley of Fairchance, Mrs. Walter Murphy of Fairmont, W. Va., Mrs. Jacob Bower of Lake Lynn,
Mrs. Sammuel Miller and Mrs. Russell Miller , both of Smithfield.

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Swaney, Smithfield, Died in Cycle Crash
Otis Swaney, 36, of Smithfield, was fatally injured Sunday night when a motorcycle on which he was
riding wrecked near the Glendale church in the Smithfield road, throwing him to the road and
fracturing his skull. He died early Monday morning.

It was claimed that Swaney was riding with George Stevens Jr., of Smithfield and was thrown from the
motorcycle when the front tire blew out and caused the machine to swerve.