Mavis A. Swapp

Mavis A. Swapp age 84 of Detroit Lakes, MN died Thursday March 4, 2010 at St. Marychr(39)s Innovis Heath, Oak Crossing in Detroit Lakes, MN. Mavis Annabelle Swapp was born on October 12, 1925 in rural Ogema, MN to Edward and Clara Nelson Sanden. She grew up and attended District 54 country school there. She then attended Ulen High School, where she graduated in 1945. She attended Moorhead State teachers College where she obtained both an Associate Degree in Education and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. On March 18, 1951 she was united in marriage to Ervin W. Swapp in Detroit Lakes, MN. They lived in rural Detroit Lakes and Mavis taught in various country schools in Becker and Ottertail counties. In 1957 she began teaching in the Frazee-Vergas schools, where she retired thirty one years later in 1988. Mavis became one of the first people to move into the Lincoln Park Senior Apartments in 2001 and in 2006 became a resident at St. Marychr(39)s Nursing Center. Mavis was a member of the Retired Educators and the Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority. Her hobbies include genealogy, playing cards, reading, fishing and dancing. Mavis also wrote an article on her teaching memories that now resides in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. She is survived by one sister, Anna (Burton) Bisbee, of Grand Rapids, MN, four nieces and three nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Ervin (2000), one brother, Edsel Sanden, and four sisters, Ellen Sanden, Gladys Sanden, Lorraine Sanden, and Hermine Rew.