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Helen M. Gere Swayze-Davies
Birth 	1908
Death 	2011 (aged 102–103)
Burial 	
Saint Helena's Cemetery
Oneida, Madison County, New York, USA
Memorial ID 	58170256 · View Source

SHERRILL - Helen Swayze Davies, 102, formerly of Sherrill and Wampsville,
died Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in the Rosewood Heights Nursing Home, Syracuse
where she had been a resident for the past one and one half years.

Born in Ithaca on Dec. 6, 1908, she was a daughter of Oscar and Stella Mack
Gere. A resident of the area since 1934, she was educated in the Ithaca
schools. She married Willard C. Swayze in Ithaca on Jan. 19, 1927. Mr. Swayze
died April 7, 1963. She later married Gordon "Skip" Davies in Dewitt in
1967. Mr. Davies died March 1992.

Prior to her retirement, she was employed with the former W. T. Grant Co. of
Oneida. She was the previous owner and operator of a family luncheonette and
gas station in Wampsville. Mrs. Davies was a member of the Christ Church,
United Methodist, the Wampsville Presbyterian Church and the church's
ladies auxiliary, the Home Bureau, the Order of the Eastern Star, Silver
Star Chapter No. 21 and the American Association of Retired Persons. She
enjoyed crafts, bingo and traveling.

Surviving are one daughter, Beverly A. Allen of Fayetteville; a
daughter-in-law, Jean Swayze of Sherrill; six grandchildren, Diane Cornish and
Frank Armstrong, Melody Allen and Wendy Allen, Amy Jones and Scott Swayze;
seven great-grandchildren, Christy Casamento, Josh Cornish, Robert Sansone,
James Sansone, Jonathan Patterson, Christin Patterson, and Camden Silas Jones;
three great-great-grandchildren, Blake and Ella Casamento and Adeline Liberty
May Munn. She was predeceased by a son, Richard W. Swayze on Nov. 21, 1998;
a daughter, Phyllis Armstrong; one brother, Richard Gere and three sisters,
Mildred Hornbrook, Alice Gere and Dorothy Gere.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Sunday at the Christ Church, United
Methodist, Sherrill with the Rev. Chris Kinnell, officiating. Interment will
be made in Valley View Cemetery. Friends may call at the Campbell-Dean Funeral
Home, Inc., 260 Main St., Oneida, 2-4 p.m., Saturday. Contributions, in her
memory, may be made to the Christ Church, United Methodist, 417 Park St.,
Sherrill, NY 13461. Envelopes for this fund may obtained at the funeral home.

Published in The Oneida Daily Dispatch on May 13, 2011

Family Members
Spouse

    Willard C. Swayze
    1907–1963

Children

    Phyllis J. Swayze Armstrong
    1928–1992

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