Meredith Swanson

September 25, 1942 – April 23, 2016

No obituary for Merrie was published. The information below was provided by her community of friends at Lakeview Gardens in Natick where she lived for the past 26 years and by Merrie’s sister Sally Legge.

Merrie worked for New England Telephone for many years. More recently she enjoyed a tomato garden and bird feeder outside her home in Lakeview Gardens. She enjoyed animals and watching old M*A*S*H episodes on television. Merrie passed while in hospice care at the Elliot Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Natick. She is buried alongside her mother in the Swanson family plot in Glenwood Cemetery in South Natick.

Merrie’s good friend David Kelley provided the picture above. He describes Merrie as someone “who could giggle like a little girl; who absolutely loved thunder storms and monster snow storms...and Godiva chocolate! She loved watching birds she could see from her apartment...she had many pictures of hawks and even wild turkeys in her photo album; the bird on her shoulder belonged to a friend, Ann, who lived in the same building, and worked at the phone company with Merrie. Ann and Merrie were good buddies.”