Blanche Arceneaux Swann (1904-1986), Avoyellean of the Year 19??
1904 Born in the old Arceneaux family home on Gloria Switch Road, north of Lafayette, LA
1928 Home Demon Agent
192? Founded First Home Demonstration Club of Avoyelles
1931 Daughter, June Rose SWANN is born
1933 Son, Fen Jr. is born
Taught school, one of her students was Gov. Edwin Edwards who praised her for being one his best teachers.
1949?-1955 Home Demon Agent
1959 Author, Louisiana, The Comunity
1950s or 60s, President, Louisiana Press Women's Association
1967 Author, House of Bread
1955?-ca1980 Weekly News Editor
1975, Co-Editor, Avoyelles Homes
Witness of great train wreck of Pointe Coupee
Spouse: Fenwick Appleton Swann (1892-1952), County agent of Avoyelles
Children: Fen Swann, Jr. (1933-ca1990) and June Swann Darnell (c1940-c2010)
Blanche ARCENEAUX
Birth: 22 FEB 1904 in Police Jury Ward 3, Lafayette, Louisiana
Death: OCT 1986 in Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Census: 1910 Police Jury Ward 3, Lafayette, Louisiana
Census: 1920 Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
Father: Emile Galbert ARCENEAUX b: 12 JUL 1876 in Carencro, LA
Mother: Rose Celestina MOUTON b: 1881 in Dekalb, Georgia
Marriage 1 Fenwick Appleton SWANN b: 1894
Children
June Rose SWANN DARNELL, b 1931, died 2009
Fenwick Appleton SWANN, Jr. b: 1933
Cass County, Texas
Darnell, June Rose Swann, 78, of Bivins, Texas, died Thursday; services at 2 p.m. today, at St. Pius X Catholic Church, Shreveport; arrangements by Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Vivian.