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Submitted: 7/9/20 • Approved: 7/10/20 • Last Updated: 7/13/20 • R332749-G0-S3
August 22, 1911 - November 17, 2007
*Obituary
FLOYDADA - Hershel Fielding Swepston, 96, died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Floyd County Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Les Hall officiating. Arrangements are by Moore-Rose Funeral Home.
Hershel was born Aug. 22, 1911, to A.T. and Beulah Lewis Swepston at headquarters of the Matador Ranch in Motley County. The family resided on the Matador Ranch until 1917, when they moved to a farm in the Hillcrest Community in eastern Floyd County. They moved to the home place near the Hillcrest School in 1921. He attended Hillcrest School and graduated from Floydada High School in 1930 and Draughon's Business College in Lubbock in 1932.
Hershel worked for the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway from 1935 to 1937 and then worked for Wilson & Son's Lumber Yard in Floydada. He married Hazel Parker on May 31, 1941. He continued to work for Wilson and Sons until June 10, 1942, when he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. During his four years of military service, he was stationed at a variety of posts and was part of the first occupation forces to enter Japan after the Japanese surrender.
After his discharge as a sergeant in 1946, he returned to Floydada and worked as a bookkeeper for his father-in-law, H.G. Parker, at the Parker Furniture Store. A second Parker's Furniture Store was opened in 1948 in Lockney, and Hershel became manager in 1952 and owner in 1970. He operated the store until his retirement in 1993.
Hershel was a member of the Masonic Lodge for 65 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Hazel; three sisters, Mary Ann Swepston, Christine Colston and Lottie Burns; and a grandson, Jason A. Swepston.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Danny and Judy Swepston of Canyon; two grandchildren, Wade Swepston of Moody and Julie Reynero of Canyon; four great-grandchildren, Joseph and Josh Reynero and Jayson and Erin Swepston; a sister, Betty Campbell of Dougherty; and five nieces and nephews.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 18, 2007
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