Northern Virginia SUN Monday, July 15, 1968
Obituaries
Mrs. Harold Bankson Was Arlington Realtor

Funeral services were to be held this afternoon July 15, 1968, for Mrs. Harold D. Bankson, a former Arlington, Virginia, real estate firm owner. Mrs. Banskon, the former Eula Dorothy Sweger, was born in Ogle County, Illinois, and died of a heart attack Thursday, July 11, 1968, in Toledo, Ohio.

She was 66 and lived at 4412 S. 1st St., Arlington.

From 1952 to 1962 she owned the Eula S. Bankson Realty Co. located on N. Glebe Rd. in Arlington.

A resident of Arlington since 1945, she was a member of the Real Estate Board of Northern Virginia, a volunteer worker with the Arlington Literacy Council, and an active member of the Clarendon Methodist Church and its Women's Society.

She was a 1924 graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and a teacher in Iowa after graduation.
After her marriage in 1928, she was a teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Besides her husband, Harold Demmel Bankson, born in Waterloo, Iowa, she is survived by a son, Lt. John H., stationed at Ft. Gordon, Georgia, and a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Heistand, of Charlotte, North Carolina.

A sister, Mrs. C.E. Marshall, of Marshalltown, Iowa, and two grandchildren also survive.

Services were to be held at 2 p.m. at the Arlington Funeral Home, followed by interment in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.

Additional historical information:
Eula was born June 18, 1902, in Ogle County, Illinois
Her parents were Mae Edith Stanley and Harvey Austin Sweger and they first lived in Aspinwall before moving to Manning.
Eula grew up in Manning, where her father operated the Manning Creamery.
Eula was a 1919 Graduate of Manning High School.
"Mrs. C. E. Marshall of Marshalltown, Iowa" is Opal Sweger - 1916 graduate of Manning High School, and sister to Eula.