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Swyer, Hugh

Age 33

Miami News Record · Apr 24 1928 · Pg 2 · Col 7

Picher Oklahoma, April 24 Hugh Swyers, 33 years old, died at 6:30 o'clock this morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Palmer, 418 North Treece street, Picher. Death followed complications which arose after an injury received several weeks ago. Mr. Swyers had been staying at the Palmer home since coming from his home at Dillard Missouri, where his wife, Mrs. Lilly Swyers; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Swyers; two brothers, Homer Swyers and Walker Sayers, and two sisters, Bessie Swyers and Lena Swyers live. The body is at the Green mortuary at Picher awaiting the arrival of relatives.

Miami News Record · Apr 26 1928 · Pg 7 · Col 7

Funeral services for Hugh Swyers, 33 years old, of Dillard Missouri, who died Tuesday at the home of a friend, Walter Palmer, 418 North Treece street, Picher Oklahoma, were held at the chapel of the Green undertaking company, Picher, at 5 o'clock yesterday after-noon. Following the services the body was sent to Dillard for burial, being accompanied by a brother, Homer Swyers, who arrived here Tuesday night.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.