Susan Jade Swenson

Suzie was a great aunt ,I will really miss her. On a occasion I think I hear her laugh but really it is just my friends laughing about something. Spring will always remind me of her. I send my regards to the rest of the family.She will always be in my heart.

This is the Garden

This is the garden: colours come and go,
frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing
strong silent greens serenely lingering,
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
This is the garden: pursed lips do blow
upon cool flutes within wide glooms, and sing
(of harps celestial to the quivering string)
invisible faces hauntingly and slow.
This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death's...

Suzie was a grand big sister. I still reach for the phone to call her to tell about the latest absurdity in my life, wanting to have a good laugh about it all. I still can't take in the fact that she is gone.

To those of you who will not be able to attend her service, please contact me via email. I have made up seed packets of wild flowers, so one can plant a small garden in her honor. I would be happy to mail a packet to you. Raise your glass and give a toast in her memory;...

She signed my Yearbook "Soozie" and she was the Homecoming Queen of Skyline High School. Every guy was in love with this lady and we are all better because she touched our lives.

With a smile that could light up a room! Suzie will always be remembered by those of us she touched with her humor, warmth and love. Hoping you find comfort in memories and each other.
Barbara Weinberg Adams and family

Both Leslie Cheney Parr and I wish to extend our deepest and sincere sympathies to Suzie's family and close friends. She was a beautiful light in the world, and she will be missed.

I have so many treasured memories of Suzie -- the water fight with Paul at Doug and Michelle's this summer, the way she jumped into the spa to save Frankie, the ketchup incident at Allegro with Russell-- it seems she was always in the middle of something! It is hard to imagine someone so vital as stilled and silent. But I will think of Suzie this spring when the tulips emerge from the layers of Minnestoa ice and snow. Just like her smile brought joy to a room, so do those symbols of life and...