Juanita Swafford

Services are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 19, at Terpening Son Chapel for Juanita Mae Swafford of Artesia, New Mexico. Mrs. Swafford, 82, died Friday, August 15, 2008 at the Artesia General Hospital. Justin Swafford will officiate at the services. Burial will be at Woodbine Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons Ricky Swafford, Justin Swafford, Stuart Swafford, Joshua Grantham, and Brandon Grantham, and her nephews Charlie Holder, and Jeff Holder. Visitation will be at Terpening Son Mortuary Monday beginning at 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Swafford was born June 12, 1926 in Kearney, Nebraska; the daughter of Clarence Trivelpiece and Mildred Stoltnow Trivelpiece. On December 1, 1945 she was married to Henry Swafford in Kearney, Nebraska. She came to Artesia in 1946 from Nebraska. He preceded her in death August 12, 1987. She was also preceded in death by her parents, and a sister Marceline Lambert. Juanita was a homemaker, a member of the First Baptist Church, and the Hermosa P.T.A. Survivors include her son Ricky Swafford and wife Christine of Artesia; daughters Kathy Grantham and husband Buddy of Artesia, Teresa Stegall and husband Mike of Artesia, and Brenda Lee and husband Michael of Albuquerque, N.M.; sisters Velma Grassmeyer of Wichita, Kansas, and Joan Heinricy of California; brother-in-law Bill Swafford of Artesia; aunt Olive Cleland of Kearney; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Memorial Contributions made be made to the Artesia Good Samaritan Center.