MEMORIAL CEMETERY
ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS

Born:  6 December 1905 - Fodice, Texas Died:  8 August 1970 - Memorial Hospital - Palestine, Anderson, Texas Father:  John H. Pennell Sr. Mother:  Flora Gardner Spouse:  Henry Clayton Swanson, Jr. - 1933 Informant:  John Pennell

Annie Elizabeth Pennell Swanson was born December 6, 1906 in Fodice, Texas.  She was the second child of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. John Pennell, Sr.  When the deceased was two years old, the family moved to Palestine for better job and educational advantages. Mrs. Swanson grew up in the Cottrell Chapel C.M.E. Church and continued her affiliation with the church to the end of her life. Annie's public school education was completed at Washington Elementary and Lincoln High School in Palestine.  Her college work was done at Mary Allen College in Crockett and Texas College at Tyler.  She constantly strove to upgrade her professional efficiency by attending summer sessions at Texas Southern University at Houston and Sam Houston at Huntsville, and by enrolling in and completing correspondence courses related to her private interests and professional commitments. In 1933, she was married to Henry Clayton Swanson, Jr., and to this union a daughter, Floralyn was born. For more than twenty years, she was an able and productive teacher of the youth of this state. Her life was characterized by her singular devotion to those who needed her and to the educational and personal standards of excellence which she set for herself.  She was a gently person, respectful of the rights of others, honest in her dealings with all people.  All whose lives she touched are richer for having known her. She departed this life on August 8, 1970. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Floralyn Green, Fort Worth; her mother, Mrs. John Pennell, Sr., Palestine; two brothers, John Pennell, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., and Moses a. Pennell II, Palestine; a sister, Mrs. Alma Gunter, San Francisco; a granddaughter, Ollie Green; a nephew, Moses A. Pennell, III; a niece Amy Pennell, Houston, and host of relatives and friends.

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furnished by the Anderson County Historical Commission and the pages
were compiled by Beverly Bailey Odom and Scott Fitzgerald.

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