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{{Infobox person
|name=Addie Peed Swearingen
(Beautician-turned-millionaire philanthropist)
|birth_date =May 25, 1904
|birth_place=Leon County, [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
|residence=Portales, Roosevelt County, [[New Mexico]]
|death_place=Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico
|death_date=June 18, 2008 (aged 104)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Portales Cemetery
|spouse=William “Hub” Swearingen (died 1975)
|children=No children
|religion=[[Baptist]]<br>
'''Note''':<br>
*Based on income from [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]]-producing lands, Mrs. Swearingen became a major [[philanthropist]] in eastern [[New Mexico]].
}}
'''Addie Peed Swearingen''' (May 25, 1904 – June 18, 2008) was a former beautician who became a [[philanthropist]] to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, and [[Lubbock Christian University]] in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. Swearingen and her husband, William "Hub" Swearingen (died 1975), became wealthy through purchasing land and mineral rights, mostly in Eddy County in eastern New Mexico. When [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] deposits were discovered on Swearingen lands, the income produced enabled Swearingen to become a benefactor of various causes.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/062208/obi_293734586.shtml|title=Addie Peed Swearingen|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 20, 2008}}</ref>
Swearingen was born in near Centerville in Leon County in east Texas to John Oscar Peed (1883-1965) and the former Mary Lee Rodgers (1885-1980).<ref>[http://countrysister.net/descendantscharts/rogers.htm Joseph Nathan Rodgers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The Peeds settled in the town of Elida in Roosevelt County]], New Mexico, where she attended several [[rural]] schools and completed [[high school]].<ref>[http://www.kenleap.com/illumination.html Illumination<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She attended beauty school in Roswell and worked for twenty-eight years as a beautician in the capital city of [[Santa Fe]], New Mexico, thirteen of those years at the La Fonda Hotel. She lived with her mother until the family [[ranch]] was sold in 1979. She then settled in nearby Portales.<ref name=obit/>
Swearingen endowed scholarships to support students at Eastern New Mexico University in the fields of [[nursing]], the fine arts, [[accounting]], and other academic programs. She donated funds for the ENMU pipe organ and displayed her own art collection there, including paintings by [[Peter Hurd]]. In 1983, she received the ENMU Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award. She was again recognized as the ENMU Foundation's Philanthropist of the Year in 2002.<ref name=enmu>{{cite web|url=http://www.enmu.edu/about/news/story.php?r=327|title=ENMU Honors Philanthropist of the Year|publisher=Eastern New Mexico University|date=2002}}</ref>
In addition to her support of ENMU, Swearingen contributed the first scholarship awarded to a female cadet at New Mexico Military Institute. She was also a donor to the [[music]] program at [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lubbock Christian University.<ref name=obit/> Her Addie Swearingen Foundation provides scholarships to assist high school students in Roosevelt County.<ref name=enmu/>
Swearingen died at the age of 104 in a hospital in Clovis, New Mexico. She had been living in a convalescent center in Farwell in Parmer County in the Texas Panhandle. She was a member of the Portales First [[Baptist]] Church. She is interred at Portales Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
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[[Category:New Mexico]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Ranchers]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
|name=Addie Peed Swearingen
(Beautician-turned-millionaire philanthropist)
|birth_date =May 25, 1904
|birth_place=Leon County, [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
|residence=Portales, Roosevelt County, [[New Mexico]]
|death_place=Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico
|death_date=June 18, 2008 (aged 104)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Portales Cemetery
|spouse=William “Hub” Swearingen (died 1975)
|children=No children
|religion=[[Baptist]]<br>
'''Note''':<br>
*Based on income from [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]]-producing lands, Mrs. Swearingen became a major [[philanthropist]] in eastern [[New Mexico]].
}}
'''Addie Peed Swearingen''' (May 25, 1904 – June 18, 2008) was a former beautician who became a [[philanthropist]] to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, and [[Lubbock Christian University]] in [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. Swearingen and her husband, William "Hub" Swearingen (died 1975), became wealthy through purchasing land and mineral rights, mostly in Eddy County in eastern New Mexico. When [[petroleum]] and [[natural gas]] deposits were discovered on Swearingen lands, the income produced enabled Swearingen to become a benefactor of various causes.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/062208/obi_293734586.shtml|title=Addie Peed Swearingen|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 20, 2008}}</ref>
Swearingen was born in near Centerville in Leon County in east Texas to John Oscar Peed (1883-1965) and the former Mary Lee Rodgers (1885-1980).<ref>[http://countrysister.net/descendantscharts/rogers.htm Joseph Nathan Rodgers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The Peeds settled in the town of Elida in Roosevelt County]], New Mexico, where she attended several [[rural]] schools and completed [[high school]].<ref>[http://www.kenleap.com/illumination.html Illumination<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She attended beauty school in Roswell and worked for twenty-eight years as a beautician in the capital city of [[Santa Fe]], New Mexico, thirteen of those years at the La Fonda Hotel. She lived with her mother until the family [[ranch]] was sold in 1979. She then settled in nearby Portales.<ref name=obit/>
Swearingen endowed scholarships to support students at Eastern New Mexico University in the fields of [[nursing]], the fine arts, [[accounting]], and other academic programs. She donated funds for the ENMU pipe organ and displayed her own art collection there, including paintings by [[Peter Hurd]]. In 1983, she received the ENMU Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award. She was again recognized as the ENMU Foundation's Philanthropist of the Year in 2002.<ref name=enmu>{{cite web|url=http://www.enmu.edu/about/news/story.php?r=327|title=ENMU Honors Philanthropist of the Year|publisher=Eastern New Mexico University|date=2002}}</ref>
In addition to her support of ENMU, Swearingen contributed the first scholarship awarded to a female cadet at New Mexico Military Institute. She was also a donor to the [[music]] program at [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lubbock Christian University.<ref name=obit/> Her Addie Swearingen Foundation provides scholarships to assist high school students in Roosevelt County.<ref name=enmu/>
Swearingen died at the age of 104 in a hospital in Clovis, New Mexico. She had been living in a convalescent center in Farwell in Parmer County in the Texas Panhandle. She was a member of the Portales First [[Baptist]] Church. She is interred at Portales Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Swearingen, Addie Peed}}
[[Category:New Mexico]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Ranchers]]
[[Category:Baptists]]