1.ArthurDSwink1, born 02 January 1904 in Weableau Prairie, Hickory Co., Missouri; died 27 February 1989 in Cayucos, San Louis Obispo Co., California. He was the son of 2. JamesLeonardSwink and 3. SusanaFrancesPrice. He married (1) MildredFrancesDrake2 19 January 1924 in prob. Sunnyside, Yakima Co., WA. She was born 22 February 1908 in South Dakota3, and died 29 March 1991 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., CA. She was the daughter of Charles Walter Drake and Myrtle Lena Baldwin. He married (2) JanJacobson Bef. 1951. He married (3) AliceM.Davison Abt. 1951 in Prosser, Washington. She was born 16 July 1914, and died 1967 in Othello, Washington. She was the daughter of James Davison and Unknown. He married (4) RoseBowman 1968 in Port Angeles, Washington.
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Burial: Ashes scattered, no marker.
Notes for Mildred Frances Drake:
Mildred was born probably in Bon Homme Co., SD where the family farmed. She came with her mother and 5 brothers and sisters to Sunnyside, WA to be reunited with her father when she was about 2 years old. Her mother died almost immediately afterwards. Her father remarried when she was almost four. His second wife, Ollie May Campbell had already been married twice. From each of her previous marriages there was a daughter. Thus, Mildred was raised with two step sisters who were themselves half-sisters. Soon, two daughters were born to Mildred's father and step-mother. Thus, Mildred was raised with two half-sisters of her own. Then, just before Mildred's fourteenth birthday her father died while he was away scouting for farmland. He was returned by rail to Sunnyside. Harriet Swink described that family as being very close, especially the sisters.
