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'''Addie Peed Swearingen''' (May 25, 1904 – June 18, 2008) was a former beautician who became a philanthropist to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, the 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>
'''Addie Peed Swearingen''' (May 25, 1904 – June 18, 2008) was a former beautician who became a philanthropist to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, the 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; material no longer on-line}}</ref>
Swearingen was born 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 was born 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/>