This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XSB.2ACE/12320.1 Message Board Post: John Everette Swaim, 94, of Wallburg died Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at Britthaven of Davidson, after several months of declining health. He was born Jan. 31, 1910, to Will and Mamie Swaim. He had made his home in Wallburg for the past 70 years. He was an active member of Wallburg Baptist Church as long as his health permitted. He sang in the choir and was a deacon and Sunday school superintendent. He retired from Thomasville Furniture Co. and Wallburg Volunteer Fire Department. On Nov. 17, 1932, he married Alice Faye Haynes, who survives and is a resident of Britthaven of Davidson. Also, surviving are his daughter, Pollye Griffith and husband, Spencer, of Murrells Inlet, S.C.; two sons, Brooklyn Swaim and wife, Gail, and Milford Swaim and wife, Brenda, both of Wallburg; six grandchildren, Lance Griffith, Mark Swaim, Stephanie Sally, Rhonda Glenn, Tim Swaim and Kevin Swaim; 12 great-grandchildren; a stepgreat-grandson; three stepgreat-great-grandchildren; and two brothe! rs and four sisters, Alfred Swaim, Delphia Brawley, Juanita Matthews, Frances Troy, Earvin Swaim and Dorthea Collins. A funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 29, in Wallburg Baptist Church by Rev. Joe Coltrane and the Rev. Dana Wooten. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will remain at the J.C. Green & Sons Funeral Home, Wallburg Chapel, until placed in the church one hour before the service. The family will receive friends after the service in the church fellowship hall and other times at the home of Brooklyn and Milford Swaim. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to Hospice of Davidson County, P.O. Box 1941, Lexington, NC 27293-1941