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Sarah Jean Dunlap Swah, 78

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Sarah Jean Dunlap Swah, 78, died April 6 at her home after a brief illness.

A retired Oster employee, she was the daughter of the late Dennie and Lena Stipe Dunlap, and was preceded in death by son, Robert Swah Jr., granddaughter Leah Swah Goodman, brother George Dunlap and sisters Glenna LeMieux and Dorothy Brown.

She is survived by her husband Robert S. Swah Sr.; daughters and son-in-law Martha and James McBride of Rock Island and Lori Swah of McMinnville; son and girlfriend, Dennie Swah and Diane Higgins of McMinnville; daughter-in-law Evelyn Swah of Estill Springs; granddaughters Crystal McBride of Tyler, Texas and Chanda McDorman and her husband, Mike, of Smithville; great-grandson Seth McDorman of Smithville; step-grandchildren Tracey Hutchins of McMinnville and Dana, Woodlee, Dena Fults and Dalien Presley, all of Estill Springs; eight step great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law Jackie and Frank Akins of Rockingham, N.C.; sister-in-law Mary Dunlap of Mt. Clemons, Mich., several nieces and nephews.

Services will be held today at 2 p.m. at High’s Chapel with burial following at Friendship Cemetery. Visitation is today from 9 a.m. until the time of the service. Memorial contributions may be made to Lazarus House Hospice.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) April 8, 2005

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