She attended grade schools in Iowa,
Mitchell, Mill and graduated from Miller High School in 1919.
After working for a year in the Hand County agent's office, she attended
Nettleton College, Sioux Falls, and was employed as a secretary in the Sioux
Falls law firm of Simon, Johnson and Hanson.
Mrs. Swanson was an active member of the Congregational Church in Highmore
where she served as Sunday school teacher, and superintendent, trustee, member
of the Tri-Church Council and president of the Women's Fellowship.
She loved sports and was proud to have been a first string guard on the
undefeated girls' basketball team at Miller High. She loved music and enjoyed
recounting stories of the days when she played the piano for silent movies.
Her community service included being troop and patrol leader and committee
member for the Girl Scounts for 20 years, chairman of the Red Cross and the
first chairman for the cancer drives in Hyde County. She was also active in
politics for 40 years, service as central committee woman, precinct committee
woman and Hyde County vice-chairman of the Republican party.
In 1967 the South Dakota State Mothers Committee chose her as an alternate for
the South Dakota Mother of the Year.
When Loretta died in 1988, she and Lisle had 20 grandchildren
and 28 great-grandchildren.
Charles Lisle apparently usually went by his middle name of Lisle.
Lisle spent a year as a cadet in the Army Air Service during World War I.
The following is from Lisle's obituary:
He was the first young man to be graduated from Highmore High School.
He then taught for a year at the Wells rural school before enrolling
in South Dakota State College in 1912. In 1913 he transferred to the
University of South Dakota for a year before returning to Highmore to
open an automobile dealership for Saxons, Overlands and Chevrolets.
After spending a year as a cadet in the Army Air Service during World
War I, he again came back to Highmore to work as cashier in the First
National Bank. He ran the auto repair shop servicing Fords for the
Ray Brothers garage and also did custom threshing for farmers in Hyde
county, later taking over the management of the Swanson family farm
properties. Until his retirement in 1959, he ran his own ranching
operation in Hyde county.
