Hazel O. Swartzlander

Hazel Olive Swartzlander, beloved mother, avid golfer and former JC Penney employee, died May 10, 2025 of natural causes at The Lakes of Monclova assisted living facility in Maumee. She was 100.

A devoted walker, she strolled nearly a mile a day until she turned 100.

Hazel was born on September 7, 1924, to Gladys Irene and Floyd Franklin Kidd in Forest, Ohio, one of seven children from that union.

She married David Lloyd George Swartzlander on February 18, 1947, ending a years-long courtship interrupted by Mr. Swartzlander’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II. They were married 66 years.

They had two children and settled in west Toledo. She worked in the J.C. Penney catalog department at the Miracle Mile shopping center on Laskey Road during the 1970's while he worked for the Toledo Scale company.

She loved to golf with her husband and they took numerous golf trips through the years. She loved to read, especially biographies.

Mr. Swartzlander passed in 2014. Mrs. Swartzlander lived with her daughter before moving into the assisted living facility.

Survivors include daughter, Jo Elaine Lyman, of Toledo; son, David Swartzlander, and his wife, Diane, of Seward, NE.; five grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

A celebration of her life will be conducted this summer.

Donations in her remembrance can be made to Hospice of Northwest Ohio or Christ the King Lutheran Church, Lambertville, MI.