Theda Elizadfth Thomason Swift

Theda Elizabeth Thomason Swift, 91, died on Sunday, May 29, 2016, at McCall Hospice House in Simpsonville, SC, following a brief illness. For the past several years she has been living at Brookdale Cleveland Park in Greenville, SC., and before that she was a Greenville resident living in the city’s historic Earle Street district.
Theda was born September 13, 1924, in Fountain Inn, SC, where she graduated from Fountain Inn High School before attending Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC. Following that she moved to Washington, DC, to work for the U.S. Treasury Department during the World War II years. In Washington she met an U.S. Army soldier, Lawrence Swift, and on February 26, 1946, they were married in Des Moines, Iowa.
In Des Moines, Theda worked for Midwestern Bell as an engineer and her husband worked for the Rock Island Railroad. In 1969 while on vacation in South Carolina to visit family, Lawrence Swift died and was buried in Clinton’s Rosemont Cemetery.
Theda moved to Greenville in 1979 to take a position as an accountant with Southern Bell, and she worked there until retirement. Outside of work she was active with the Arthur Murry Dance Studio and the Greenville Little Theater.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence, and her parents, Clifton T. Thomason and Annie Ruth Thomason of Clinton; her brother, Herschel Thomason of Clinton; and her sister, Frances Doyle Thomason Winslow of Bloomington, IN.
She is survived by her niece, Patricia Thomason Kuckens of Taylors, SC; her nephew, Donald R. Winslow of Amarillo, TX; her great-nephew Scott Handback and great-nieces Ashley Goodner and Bethany Winslow; and her great-great-niece Savannah Goodner.
Burial was June 2, 2016, at the Rosemont Cemetery in Clinton, SC, and services were arranged by Gray Funeral Home - Clinton.
Donations in her memory can be made to the Epworth Children’s Home, 2900 Millwood Ave., P.O. Box 50466, Columbia, SC. Condolences can be sent to Patricia Kuckens, 27 Bernwood Drive, Taylors, SC, 29687.