Dorothy "Dottie" Swier

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Dorothy “Dottie” Swier, 88, of Colton died Sunday, January 26, 2014 at the Morningside Care Center in Alcester.

Funeral services will begin at 10:30 AM Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at Faith Community Church, Colton. Burial will be in the Colton Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be from 4-6:00 PM Tuesday at the Minnehaha Funeral Home, Colton.

Dorothy Ann Louise was born April 11, 1925 on her family’s farm home near Hartford to parents Harry and Annette (Byg) Munce. She attended the McLeod County School and graduated from Hartford High School. After high school Dottie and her best friend Adeline Schulz traveled to Los Angeles, where she worked as a sales girl in a soda shop. She then returned to Colton and married Peter L. Swier on January 4, 1945. She along with our father nurtured four children, Thomas Owen, Sandra Lynn, Walter John, and Kay Annette. She lived an active life working hard on the family farm alongside her husband. If she ever had some down time, you would find her reading. She passed on her love of words and passion for reading to all four of her children. Pete died July 20, 1998.

Dottie was a member of the Faith Community Church in Colton.

Grateful for having shared her life are her two sons, Walt (Anita) Swier, Marshall, Missouri, Tom (Sandrau) Swier, Sioux Falls; two daughters, Sandra (Bill) Wood, Ft. Scott, Kansas; and Kay (Tom) Hepner, Sioux Falls; thirteen grandchildren; twenty great grandchildren with one due in April; a great great grandson; and her sister, Audrey Ahrendt, Salem, Oregon; sisters in law, brothers in law, nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Pete, her parents, and three brothers, Russell, Elroy and Robert Munce.