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Doris H. "Deje" Swain

San Antonio, Texas

1930 - 2017

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June 21, 1930 - June 23, 2017Deje attended Westminster Choir College at Princeton, studied under Leonard Bernstein, and walked to classes with Albert Einstein. With her beautiful vocal abilities she taught theatre and music at St Mary's Hall for 10 years and taught piano and voice in her home for...

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I miss you and I think about you everyday

Oh Deje,
I still think of you everyday. I didn't know you had passed away.
I'm sorry. I love you so much and I think about you all time. You encouraged me to sing and always spent time with me. I loved going places with you and spending time with you
I love you and I miss you.

Deje was a pure light, an inspiration, and a dear soul. Our lives have been more beautiful for her part in them, and we give thanks for having known her.

I remember one of her music classes at SMH where she asked all of us 5th graders to lie down all over the floor and close our eyes and then she walked us through this meditation where we floated up into the sky and the clouds felt like marshmallows and the wind was like silk and then she brought us back down to Earth to start class. She was ahead of her time. That was 40 years ago and I still remember. Loved her!