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Helen Swalley
HELEN SWALLEY
Cedar Rapids
Helen Swalley, 88, of Cedar Rapids, died March 30, 2015. Memorial gathering: 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cedar Rapids. Private burial: Linwood
Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.
Helen (Novak) Swalley was born June 12, 1926, in Cedar Rapids, to John and Maria (Svoboda) Novak. She married Robert Swalley on June 5, 1950. He died in 1967.
Helen is survived by her son, Robert L. Swalley (Mary) of Rosemount, Minn.; grandsons, Adam M. Swalley and Matt J. McDonald; sister, Mary Klopp of Cedar Rapids; brother, John Novak of Florida; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her daughter, Debra K. McDonald (Cliff); and brothers, Joe, Chuck, George, Wes and Otto.
Please share a memory of Helen at www.murdoch funeralhome.com under obituaries.
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