This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swanson, Mott, Bolyen, Moon, Jordan, Ronan, Roland, Curtiss Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/783 Message Board Post: SWANSON, Arlene G. Age 88 Of Hastings Died Friday, November 29, 2002 at Pennock Hospital in Hastings. She was born January 25, 1914 in Augusta, MI, the daughter of Everell and Augusta (Mott) Bolyen. She graduated from W.K. Kellogg School in Hickory Corners in 1933. Arlene married George J. Swanson July 14, 1930, and he died October 15, 1987. Arlene was a homemaker, and an avid outdoors person, who loved to hunt and fish. She also loved to bowl. She was preceded in death by her husband, George J. Swanson; one brother, Russell Bolyen; and two sisters, Maxine Moon and Elloise Jordan. Surviving are a son, James Swanson (Donna Ronan) of Hastings; daughter, Janice (Roland) Curtiss of Hastings; 5 grandchildren; 5 great-grand-children; many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at the GIRRBACH FUNERAL HOME Hastings Funeral Services will be held Monday, December 2, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. at the Girrbach Funeral Home, Pastor Russell Sarver officiating. Burial will be at Hastings Twp. Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Thornapple Manor (Alzheimer's Education) fund. Published in the Kalamazoo Gazette on 11/30/2002. (posted by a volunteer-no family connection)