Rebecca Agnes Swiney

May 20, 2017

Rebecca Agnes Swiney Born April 25, 1930, one of twelve children, to Marshall and Georgia Bird Barnhouse. While growing up she attended The Church of God in Clendenin and played women’s basketball and served as a flag girl in the band for the high school. In 1967 she became owner and operator of Betty’s Beauty Shoppe in Charleston and when Edgewood Summit opened, her faithful clientele of many years requested her to be the operator and manager of their private beauty shop and she accepted. Working was all she knew and retired at the age or 79. She single handedly provided a warm, secure and quite memorable home for her children and they along with family and friends will never forget all the happy and humorous tales and memories of their life together. Preceding her in death was her child Gerald Thomas Swiney, her parents Marshall and Georgia Barnhouse, brothers, Junior, Kester, Billy, and Jack Barnhouse and sisters Hazel Kizer, Mary Wright and Josephine Wilcox. Children: Mary Harris (Nancy Beals), Joyce Grow (John) and John Swiney (Susan); Grandchildren: Don Harris (Carina Wilmot), Karen Dent (Micah), Becky Gross (Shawn), John C Grow II and Raymond Swiney; Great Grandchildren, Grace, Andy Harris, Shane and Kyle Dent; Sisters and Brothers, Ernestine Ray, Adah Lynch, Don Barnhouse, Diane Harris; Loving friends and caregivers who were so faithful: Rose Harless, Tina Ekenaski, Albert Robinson, Sandra Evans, And her cat Shadow Special thanks to Hospice: Lynese, Beth, Brittany, Pete and Connie. Funeral service will be 11:00 AM Tuesday May 23, 2017 at Matics Funeral Home Inc. with Chaplain Pete Thompson officiating. Burial will be in the Board Cemetery Clendenin, WV. Visitation will be Monday May 22, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the funeral home. Online condolences may be expressed at maticsfuneralhome.com.