Susan M. Swearingen

Susan M. Swearingen died at her home in Bothell, Washington, on July 4, 2011 after a brief illness. She was born September 5, 1949, in Burlington, Iowa, and she grew up in Iowa, Illinois, California, and Washington state. She will be missed for her hearty laugh and for her strong singing voice. She is survived by her mother, Joan Einecke; and by sisters Barbara Loll, Heidi Swartz, Lyza Latham, and Dora Grace; and brothers Mark Swearingen and Daniel Swearingen. Susan graduated high school at Lewis and Clark in Spokane, and she attended college at the University of Puget Sound and San Francisco City College. She went to work for AT&T in her twenties, and she was trained there to do technical writing and training. Later her work focused on software development, including more than a dozen years at Microsoft Corporation. She was meticulous in her attention to detail and in completing her assignments. Susan loved the theater and the performing arts, and she may always have regretted not being able to make her mark in that area. She loved to sing, and she used that in serving many years in the adult choir at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, thus bein...[more]

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able to combine a personal passion with devotion. Those of us who lived at a distance from her will continue to listen to the excellent recordings made by that choir, whose music she loved to make.