Esther P. MacSwan

Esther Peterson MacSwan, age 104

Esther passed away on New Years Eve after a brief hospitalization. She had been a resident at Covenant Village, a retirement community in Cromwell, CT for the past 25 years and at the time of her passing was the facility's oldest resident. She and a group of her friends, dubbed as "Chris's Kids" (after their adoption by assistant coach Chris Dailey, of the UConn women's basketball team) were and are staunch supporters of the Huskies and gather together to watch every televised game. She was born in 1914, six years before women were given the right to vote and a couple of months after Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated, which ignited World War One. She was graduated from the Katherine Gibbs School and worked for many years doing private secretarial work and as secretary and treasurer of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Belmont.

She lived for many years in Chatham, MA after she and her late husband Alastair retired in 1972. Alastair worked at the old Boston Herald for thirty five years and retired as foreman of the composing room. The family resided in Belmont, MA. She is survived by her son John and his wife Madeline, daughter-in-law Joan MacSwan of Washington's Crossing, PA and Chatham, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, with numbers eight and nine expected within the next month.

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