Elizabeth Swindler passed away after a short illness, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at Beaumont Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn. She was 95 years old. Beloved wife of the late Ray Emerson Swindler, she leaves behind her son Brian (Christine), and daughter Gaia Swan. She was a proud Grandmother of Rebecca (John) Seilicki, and Andrew, and loving Great-grandmother of Bronwyn, Jack, Logan and Mckenzie. She will be greatly missed by her adoring nieces Elizabeth Dyc, Marilyn Eves and Pamela Simon, and nephews David Watson, Bill Watson and Stephen Chensue.

Elizabeth was born in Lincoln Park, Michigan, on February 13, 1925, to George Watson, an industrial laborer, and Mary Elizabeth Watson nee Stewart, homemaker. Both parents were British citizens and native Northern Irish. In 1933, they moved their family back to the place of George's birth: Omagh, district Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. There, she attended a rural, one-room school of multi-age pupils and a sole teacher. Later on, they settled in Rush Green, Romford, Essex in east London, England. Elizabeth ("Mollie" to family and friends) completed her formal education there, and started her factory work career after 8 ^th grade, which was the custom of working-class British at the time. She experienced firsthand the Nazi Blitzkrieg over London in World War II.

At the close of the war, 19-year-old Elizabeth, who was a dual citizen, boarded a Liberty ship and crossed the Atlantic for the last time. She joined her elder sister Isabel ("Violet") in Detroit, and met Ray Emerson Swindler, who was to be her husband and father of their two children. Once married, Ray worked at Cadillac in production and later, in Automotive Engineering at Ford Motor Company. They welcomed their firstborn, Brian, in 1954, and a daughter, Gay ("Gaia") in 1959.

Elizabeth and Ray were proud Democrats and antiwar activists. She was a long-time member of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, political activist, and pacifist.
She was well-read beyond her 8 ^th grade attainment, and loved poetry, literature, Buddhist philosophy and politics. She championed humane and ethical treatment of animals, conservation, social justice, and many beneficent causes. She will be lovingly remembered for her intelligence, kindness, generosity and Irish humor.

Visitation will be held at the Dearborn Chapel of Howe-Peterson Funeral Home on Monday, November 9 ^th , 3-8pm.

Memorial contributions in Elizabeth's honor are appreciated to WILPF ( https://www.wilpf.org/donate/ ) and The Nature Conservancy (https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2?df_id=10420&10420.donation=form1)