Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson
1929 - 2019
Early Life: Garneta was born January 11, 1929, the first year of the Great Depression, in Patoka, Gibson County, Indiana*, to Frank Emil and Lydia Clara Linstrot Beumer. Her family lived on a farm in Holland, Indiana, where she learned to plant, harvest, feed animals, milk cows, and drive the family Model T truck. At age 10, the Depression ended, World War II started, and her four older brothers joined the military and left to serve in the European and Pacific Theaters. She was 16 when the war ended in 1945.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: Following World War II, Garneta married Chad Eugene Swenson, a handsome “Navy Man”. Then, they began their life of traveling. She lived in eight states and visited all the remaining 42. She lived outside the United States on naval bases in Cuba and Guam and visited 13 other countries and territories. The family sat around the dining room table one night and counted 46 different addresses where she had lived! Then she mentioned that she was sure she had forgotten a few. Her office walls at home are adorned with business awards and plaques. She was a top Tupperware dealer, manager and distributor in Utah, Alabama and Louisiana in the 1960s, worked for the Twins Baseball Organization in the '70s, was instrumental in building the Tangerine Bowl Organization – now the Citrus Bowl, was inducted into the Citrus Bowl Hall of Fame in 1984, was the Top Sales Executive for Sheraton Hotels International in 1987, served as the director in several national trade associations in the hospitality industry, and actively worked in women’s national executive sales organizations to promote equality for females and to provide scholarships for young women pursuing studies in that industry. She was a doer, a mover and a shaker. Garneta was raised Lutheran and converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptized by missionaries in the Pacific Ocean while living in Guam. She helped build the first LDS Chapel on Guam and was sealed to Chad in the Salt Lake Temple when they moved back to the states. She was an active and faithful member of the Church and served in the Sunday School, Seminary, Primary, MIA, Cub Scouts and Relief Society organizations of the Church. Garneta didn’t talk or complain about what needed to be done when presented with an opportunity or problem, she simply went to work and made it happen. Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson passed from this life March 11, 2019, in Mapleton, Utah. She was 90 years of age.
Family Message: "Garneta, Toots, Mom, or Grandma, it didn’t matter what you called her, how you came to be associated with her, or how she came into your life, you always knew that she loved you and supported you. She will be missed by those of us still here. But we know that she is rejoicing with her husband, family, friends and loved ones who have already passed, and more importantly, with her Savior Jesus Christ and her Father in Heaven."
Survived By: Her daughters: Angela Johnson and Leah Davis-Swenson; her sons: Keith Swenson and Mark Swenson; their spouses; and by her grandchildren; great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Elinor D. Weisman.
Service: Graveside
Arrangements: Wheeler Mortuary
Ashes Buried: Utah State Veterans Memorial Park
Obituary: © Wheeler Mortuary | March 2019
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
*DISCREPANCY: Between obituary and primary sources. In particular, her birth place was Patoka, rather than Holland, Indiana. The family lived in Holland but she was not born there (see birth certificate attached). The name Sophia was not listed as a middle name, following the name Anna, on her birth certificate but written in her obituary.
1929 - 2019
Early Life: Garneta was born January 11, 1929, the first year of the Great Depression, in Patoka, Gibson County, Indiana*, to Frank Emil and Lydia Clara Linstrot Beumer. Her family lived on a farm in Holland, Indiana, where she learned to plant, harvest, feed animals, milk cows, and drive the family Model T truck. At age 10, the Depression ended, World War II started, and her four older brothers joined the military and left to serve in the European and Pacific Theaters. She was 16 when the war ended in 1945.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: Following World War II, Garneta married Chad Eugene Swenson, a handsome “Navy Man”. Then, they began their life of traveling. She lived in eight states and visited all the remaining 42. She lived outside the United States on naval bases in Cuba and Guam and visited 13 other countries and territories. The family sat around the dining room table one night and counted 46 different addresses where she had lived! Then she mentioned that she was sure she had forgotten a few. Her office walls at home are adorned with business awards and plaques. She was a top Tupperware dealer, manager and distributor in Utah, Alabama and Louisiana in the 1960s, worked for the Twins Baseball Organization in the '70s, was instrumental in building the Tangerine Bowl Organization – now the Citrus Bowl, was inducted into the Citrus Bowl Hall of Fame in 1984, was the Top Sales Executive for Sheraton Hotels International in 1987, served as the director in several national trade associations in the hospitality industry, and actively worked in women’s national executive sales organizations to promote equality for females and to provide scholarships for young women pursuing studies in that industry. She was a doer, a mover and a shaker. Garneta was raised Lutheran and converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptized by missionaries in the Pacific Ocean while living in Guam. She helped build the first LDS Chapel on Guam and was sealed to Chad in the Salt Lake Temple when they moved back to the states. She was an active and faithful member of the Church and served in the Sunday School, Seminary, Primary, MIA, Cub Scouts and Relief Society organizations of the Church. Garneta didn’t talk or complain about what needed to be done when presented with an opportunity or problem, she simply went to work and made it happen. Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson passed from this life March 11, 2019, in Mapleton, Utah. She was 90 years of age.
Family Message: "Garneta, Toots, Mom, or Grandma, it didn’t matter what you called her, how you came to be associated with her, or how she came into your life, you always knew that she loved you and supported you. She will be missed by those of us still here. But we know that she is rejoicing with her husband, family, friends and loved ones who have already passed, and more importantly, with her Savior Jesus Christ and her Father in Heaven."
Survived By: Her daughters: Angela Johnson and Leah Davis-Swenson; her sons: Keith Swenson and Mark Swenson; their spouses; and by her grandchildren; great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Elinor D. Weisman.
Service: Graveside
Arrangements: Wheeler Mortuary
Ashes Buried: Utah State Veterans Memorial Park
Obituary: © Wheeler Mortuary | March 2019
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
*DISCREPANCY: Between obituary and primary sources. In particular, her birth place was Patoka, rather than Holland, Indiana. The family lived in Holland but she was not born there (see birth certificate attached). The name Sophia was not listed as a middle name, following the name Anna, on her birth certificate but written in her obituary.
Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson
1929 - 2019
Early Life: Garneta was born January 11, 1929, the first year of the Great Depression, in Patoka, Gibson County, Indiana*, to Frank Emil and Lydia Clara Linstrot Beumer. Her family lived on a farm in Holland, Indiana, where she learned to plant, harvest, feed animals, milk cows, and drive the family Model T truck. At age 10, the Depression ended, World War II started, and her four older brothers joined the military and left to serve in the European and Pacific Theaters. She was 16 when the war ended in 1945.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: Following World War II, Garneta married Chad Eugene Swenson, a handsome “Navy Man”. Then, they began their life of traveling. She lived in eight states and visited all the remaining 42. She lived outside the United States on naval bases in Cuba and Guam and visited 13 other countries and territories. The family sat around the dining room table one night and counted 46 different addresses where she had lived! Then she mentioned that she was sure she had forgotten a few. Her office walls at home are adorned with business awards and plaques. She was a top Tupperware dealer, manager and distributor in Utah, Alabama and Louisiana in the 1960s, worked for the Twins Baseball Organization in the '70s, was instrumental in building the Tangerine Bowl Organization – now the Citrus Bowl, was inducted into the Citrus Bowl Hall of Fame in 1984, was the Top Sales Executive for Sheraton Hotels International in 1987, served as the director in several national trade associations in the hospitality industry, and actively worked in women’s national executive sales organizations to promote equality for females and to provide scholarships for young women pursuing studies in that industry. She was a doer, a mover and a shaker. Garneta was raised Lutheran and converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptized by missionaries in the Pacific Ocean while living in Guam. She helped build the first LDS Chapel on Guam and was sealed to Chad in the Salt Lake Temple when they moved back to the states. She was an active and faithful member of the Church and served in the Sunday School, Seminary, Primary, MIA, Cub Scouts and Relief Society organizations of the Church. Garneta didn’t talk or complain about what needed to be done when presented with an opportunity or problem, she simply went to work and made it happen. Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson passed from this life March 11, 2019, in Mapleton, Utah. She was 90 years of age.
Family Message: "Garneta, Toots, Mom, or Grandma, it didn’t matter what you called her, how you came to be associated with her, or how she came into your life, you always knew that she loved you and supported you. She will be missed by those of us still here. But we know that she is rejoicing with her husband, family, friends and loved ones who have already passed, and more importantly, with her Savior Jesus Christ and her Father in Heaven."
Survived By: Her daughters: Angela Johnson and Leah Davis-Swenson; her sons: Keith Swenson and Mark Swenson; their spouses; and by her grandchildren; great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Elinor D. Weisman.
Service: Graveside
Arrangements: Wheeler Mortuary
Ashes Buried: Utah State Veterans Memorial Park
Obituary: © Wheeler Mortuary | March 2019
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
*DISCREPANCY: Between obituary and primary sources. In particular, her birth place was Patoka, rather than Holland, Indiana. The family lived in Holland but she was not born there (see birth certificate attached). The name Sophia was not listed as a middle name, following the name Anna, on her birth certificate but written in her obituary.
1929 - 2019
Early Life: Garneta was born January 11, 1929, the first year of the Great Depression, in Patoka, Gibson County, Indiana*, to Frank Emil and Lydia Clara Linstrot Beumer. Her family lived on a farm in Holland, Indiana, where she learned to plant, harvest, feed animals, milk cows, and drive the family Model T truck. At age 10, the Depression ended, World War II started, and her four older brothers joined the military and left to serve in the European and Pacific Theaters. She was 16 when the war ended in 1945.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: Following World War II, Garneta married Chad Eugene Swenson, a handsome “Navy Man”. Then, they began their life of traveling. She lived in eight states and visited all the remaining 42. She lived outside the United States on naval bases in Cuba and Guam and visited 13 other countries and territories. The family sat around the dining room table one night and counted 46 different addresses where she had lived! Then she mentioned that she was sure she had forgotten a few. Her office walls at home are adorned with business awards and plaques. She was a top Tupperware dealer, manager and distributor in Utah, Alabama and Louisiana in the 1960s, worked for the Twins Baseball Organization in the '70s, was instrumental in building the Tangerine Bowl Organization – now the Citrus Bowl, was inducted into the Citrus Bowl Hall of Fame in 1984, was the Top Sales Executive for Sheraton Hotels International in 1987, served as the director in several national trade associations in the hospitality industry, and actively worked in women’s national executive sales organizations to promote equality for females and to provide scholarships for young women pursuing studies in that industry. She was a doer, a mover and a shaker. Garneta was raised Lutheran and converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptized by missionaries in the Pacific Ocean while living in Guam. She helped build the first LDS Chapel on Guam and was sealed to Chad in the Salt Lake Temple when they moved back to the states. She was an active and faithful member of the Church and served in the Sunday School, Seminary, Primary, MIA, Cub Scouts and Relief Society organizations of the Church. Garneta didn’t talk or complain about what needed to be done when presented with an opportunity or problem, she simply went to work and made it happen. Garneta Anna Beumer Swenson passed from this life March 11, 2019, in Mapleton, Utah. She was 90 years of age.
Family Message: "Garneta, Toots, Mom, or Grandma, it didn’t matter what you called her, how you came to be associated with her, or how she came into your life, you always knew that she loved you and supported you. She will be missed by those of us still here. But we know that she is rejoicing with her husband, family, friends and loved ones who have already passed, and more importantly, with her Savior Jesus Christ and her Father in Heaven."
Survived By: Her daughters: Angela Johnson and Leah Davis-Swenson; her sons: Keith Swenson and Mark Swenson; their spouses; and by her grandchildren; great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Elinor D. Weisman.
Service: Graveside
Arrangements: Wheeler Mortuary
Ashes Buried: Utah State Veterans Memorial Park
Obituary: © Wheeler Mortuary | March 2019
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
*DISCREPANCY: Between obituary and primary sources. In particular, her birth place was Patoka, rather than Holland, Indiana. The family lived in Holland but she was not born there (see birth certificate attached). The name Sophia was not listed as a middle name, following the name Anna, on her birth certificate but written in her obituary.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
