GEORGE R. SWAN

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial service for George R. Swan of Hilo, Hawaii, will be held Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hilo.

Swan, 68 years old, died Saturday, March 16, 1991, in a Hilo hospital.

He was born Nov. 16, 1922, at Seventy-Six in Perry County, son of Albert R. and Mary E. Farrar Swan. After his parents died he made his home with a sister and brother-in-law, Roberta and Sloan Cotner in Cape.

Swan and the former Dorothy Martin were married Sept. 5, 1950, in California. He served eight years in the U.S. Navy. Swan had worked at Prospect High School in Campbell, Calif. He moved to Hilo in 1979, where he worked at Parker Ranch, retiring because of ill health.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Albert Swan III of Honolulu, Hawaii; three daughters, Bonnie Green of Bakersfield, Calif., twins Mary Rillanos and Marion Swan of Hilo; a brother, Oliver Swan of Cape; three sisters, Roberta Cotner, Gertrude Green and Alice Haman of Cape; five grandchildren, and a great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by three sisters and twin brothers.