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Church where she and Bob were married and where they celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary,
  Survivors include two daughters Margaret Bright of Lakeside, and Roberta Campbell; three grandchildren; four brothers: Charles, Donald and Bill Foster of Lakeside, and Leroy "Coke" Foster of Arkansas.

  A letter from daughter, Everyl Kivela, informed us of the death of Vaughnie on December 12, 2001 in Citrus Heights, California where she lived for many years.
  She married Pharris Swearengin in 1933 after he had graduated from UC Davis in Davis, California.  They came back to his former town of Lakeside in 1937. Vaughnie taught third grade in the Lakeside School district for several years.  Both of them were involved in community affairs.  Pharris was president of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Lakeside Fire Department. They left Lakeside in 1946 when he entered Physicians and Surgeons College and settled in Citrus Heights.  They often returned to Lakeside to visit friends and family, and to attend the Hometown Reunion.  Both were members of the Lakeside Historical Society and Vaughnie belonged to the TNT Club.  Pharris died in 1993.
  Everyl writes: "Know that she cared so much for Lakeside, the Church, and all the friends she made there.  Ray (my husband) and I will come down and bring her ashes to join Pop at Cypress Hills."

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  We also thought the historic house deserved at least one acre of land so it could be the showplace of the community. We asked that there be 1//2 acre or larger ranchetts that would fit better with the surrounding ranches in the community. We lost at every turn. The farm house will only have 1//2 acre and will be completely surrounded by new modern houses that will be in the $350,000 price range on small city size lots.
  Although the new owners of these houses think they will love country living.  I can tell you from personal experience that the first thing that will happen is that they will complain about the roosters crowing, then they will
complain about horse flies.  Soon the small ranches in the area will start selling off.  And because the developers offer so much more money than anyone else, the small ranches will be picked off one at a time. This is the beginning of the end for the small ranches in the area.
  The County is trying to prevent urban sprawl in the East (in our backcountry), and one of the ways to do it is to push development West . . . well guess what folks, Lakeside is West and they have big plans to develop us. These things I have learned by going to many planning group meetings and Board of Supervisor meetings.
  The preservationists are loosing to the developers in almost every case. The Historical Society has formed a "Historic Preservation Committee" to go to battle for our old buildings, we hope that we can win some. Would you
like to be on the committee?  Please give me a call at 443-1133, or leave a message at the history center -- 561-1886.