For Immediate Release/Obituary
Lyman Swingle, Secretary-Treasurer for Jehovah's Witnesses' corporation, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK—Lyman Alexander Swingle, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, died today in Brooklyn, N.Y., USA. Lyman Swingle was born November 6, 1910, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the first of five children. He was already an ordained minister of Jehovah's Witnesses when he began working at the organization's world headquarters in Brooklyn Heights in April 1930. On October 1, 1945, he was appointed to the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. He remained on the board until October 2000. He was Secretary-Treasurer from 1983 to 2000. On June 9, 1956, Lyman Swingle married Crystal Waldrop. They shared a mutual devotion to helping others find spiritual satisfaction. In the last two decades, millions of children came to recognize the warm, sincere, grandfatherly voice of Lyman Swingle heard in his readings from the publication My Book of Bible Stories on audiocassette. At the international convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1946, Lyman Swingle first announced that the journal Consolation would get a new name, Awake! That journal now has a circulation of 20,000,000, in 83 languages. A hallmark of Jehovah's Witnesses, this journal is published to bring enlightenment to entire families and report on news while examining religion and science. Lyman Swingle's friends and associates will long remember him as a loyal, hardworking, humble man who loved his family and offered his light and easy wit to conversation. A memorial service will be held Monday, March 19, 2001, at the Brooklyn Heights Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Lyman Swingle was preceded in death by his wife, Crystal, and one brother, Thomas. He is survived by his sister, Betty Thomas of Ellensburg, Washington; his brothers Francis and Leroy Swingle of Salt Lake City, Utah; and two children, BelleMarie Blount of Mobile, Alabama, and Judy Harrison of Houston, Texas. He is also survived by numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Contact: J. R. Brown, telephone: (718) 560-5600
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