{"id":23936,"date":"2011-07-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/s-don-swenson\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T00:05:25","slug":"s-don-swenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/s-don-swenson\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Don Swenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S. Don Swenson Age 83 passed away peacefully June 27, 2011. He was born April 2, 1928 in East Midvale, Utah to Pierce &amp; Mary Swenson. Don worked as a carpenter, and then for many years as a sales manager for Lennox Heating and Air conditioning.\u00a0 He then used his knowledge to teach and write textbooks at North Seattle Community College before he retired. Don was a member of the LDS Church, he enjoyed fly fishing, camping, gardening and any activity that kept him outdoors. He also loved to paint and do woodworking. Don is survived by; son, James Swenson (Elizabeth)of Snohomish, WA.; daughters, Karen Swenson of Virginia; Mary Jane Sherwood (Daniel)of Auburn, WA.; and Susan Jones (Michael)of Oregon. Seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Swenson; sisters, Olive &amp; Fern Sharp; Wanda Burkett; Dora Butler; brothers, Vivian Swenson; Irv &amp; Adelbert Swenson. Memorial Services\u00a0are noon on Tuesday July 5th, LDS Church 94th Ave So Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Don Swenson Age 83 passed away peacefully June 27, 2011. He was born April 2, 1928 in East Midvale, Utah to Pierce &amp; Mary Swenson. Don worked as a carpenter, and then for many years as a sales manager for Lennox Heating and Air conditioning.\u00a0 He then used his knowledge to teach and write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}