Oura Lee Swart was born on 14 June 1936, in the family home on the Northwest Kansas wheat and cattle farm as the 13th of 14 children born to his parents, George Martin Swart and Zula May Gilkerson Swart. He died on 17 January 2021 in Fort Payne, Alabama.
Services will be held on Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at the First Baptist Church, Fort Payne, Alabama, with the Reverend Doctor Pat McFadden, the Pastor Doctor Marshall Henderson, and the Reverend Doctor Bart Hildreth conducting. At the conclusion of these services, Leeâs remains were transferred to Oakley, Kansas, where services were conducted by the Baalmann Funeral Home prior to burial in his family plot in the Oakley City Cemetery. The Pall Bearers were nieces and nephews.