Notes:

SSI record death April 1976 shows birth MN 18 January 1916

DONALD O. SWAN

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES APRIL 27, 1976

Donald O. Swan, president since 1968 of what is now the Exxon Chemical Company, the chemical division of Exxon Corporation, of which he was a vice president, died yesterday M Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cuncer Center, He was 60 years old and lived in Manhattan.

Mr. Swan pined the corpo‐I ration in 1939 on graduation from the University of Minnesota with a degree in chemical engineering. He was assistant general manager of the company&s refinery in Baton Rouge before his transfer here in 1957 as assistant general manager of manufacturing.

Surviving are his wife, the former Ruth Galarneau; two daughters, Beverly Barnard and Sally Hartenstein, and two granddaughters.

Family/Spouse: Ruth L. Galarneau. Ruth (daughter of Hector D. (Joseph Hector) Galarneau and Bertha Sophia Fornell) was born on 13 Mar 1916; died on 11 Jun 2000 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut ; was buried on 17 Jun 2000 in Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan Fairfield County CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Oscar married Mathilda Bernice Strafelda on 27 Apr 1915 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Mathilda was born on 19 Oct 1892 in Minnesota; died on 13 Sep 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]