Ralph W. McSwegin of 515 Indiana Ave., Chester, a retired fruit grower, died Friday at 9:50 p.m. at City Hospital after a brief illness. He was 76. Mr. McSwegin was born in Hancock County Aug., 25, 1889, to the late William R. McSwegin and Agnes Stewart McSwegin. He retired in 1945. He was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Chester, where he served as a trustee and elder, the Pughtown Grange and was a past member of the Hancock County Farm Bureau. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Verna Swearingen McSwegin, at home; a son, Merl McSwegin of East Liverpool; a daughter, Mrs. Gregg (Marian) Ramsey of Lisbon; three sisters, Mrs. Asa Geer of Ravenna; Mrs. Laura Hobbs of Chester and Mrs. E. J. Boyd of Wellsville; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Westminster Church by the Rev. Donald Bell. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Pughtown. Friends may call Sunday and Monday at the Chester Arner Funeral Chapel.