Patricia Ann Swiger
Interment will follow at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens. Online condolences, www.davisweaverfuneralhome.com The Davis-Weaver Funeral Home is honored to serve the Swiger Family during their time of need.
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Dominion Post
12-07-2025
- Dominion Post
Patricia Ann Swiger
Patricia Ann Swiger, 79, of Clarksburg, WV, passed away on Thursday, July 10, 2025 at home with her family by her was born on November 13, 1945 in Clarksburg, a daughter of the late Ruben F. and Betty L. Bennett addition to her parents Patricia was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, William M. Swiger on July 23, 2016; son, Raymond Dodd Jr.; sister, Shelia Marino; and son-in-law, Chris Swiger is survived by four daughters: Kimberly L. Furbee (David) of Clarksburg, Sharon Dodd (companion Kevin Patterson) of Clarksburg, Vicki Mason of VanCleave, MS, and Stella Palmer (Mark) of Loris, SC; sister Cheryl Hinerman (Robert) of Blacksville, WV; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; uncle James Bennett of Clarksburg; and two nephews: Richard Little II (Elizabeth) of Morgantown and Marty Webb (Kathleen) of attended grade school and high school in Lumberport, where she was in the EagleLettes in high was Past Matron and Deputy Instructor in Queen Esther #11 Clarksburg, Past High Priestess of Tefnet Court #87 Ladies Oriental Shrine Clarksburg (LOSNA), Member of HillBilly Shriners of Parkersburg, Life Member Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post #573 Clarksburg, Women of the Moose Chapter #409, American Legion Auxiliary Post #68 Bridgeport and Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles #2353 enjoyed shopping and loved spending time with her grandchildren and enjoyed traveling with her sister Cheryl for LOSNA functions and was always there to help with fundraising for the Shriners Hospital for lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to Shriners Children's Hospital 110 Conn Terrace Lexington, KY 40508 in memory of Patricia and friends will be received at Davis-Weaver Funeral Home 329 E. Main Street Clarksburg, WV, on Monday, July 14, 2025 from 3 to 8 p.m. An Eastern Star Service will begin that evening at 6:30 p.m. conducted by Order of the Eastern Star Queen Esther #11 and LOSNA Tefnet Court #87 Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 11 a.m. with Rev. Timothy Sandy presiding. Interment will follow at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens. Online condolences, The Davis-Weaver Funeral Home is honored to serve the Swiger Family during their time of need.
CNBC
26-06-2025
- CNBC
Use the '25 1-minute parenting rule' to get your kids to open up: 'You can learn something and not overload' them, psychologist says
It can be tough to get kids to talk to you about what's bothering them, but it can be less difficult if you have shorter, consistent conversations with them, says child psychologist J. Timothy Davis. When your child is experiencing issues like challenges at school or difficulty expressing their emotions, Davis suggests the "25 1-minute parenting rule": Brief chats about an issue over time, instead of one long conversation about the topic. It can be even more effective for communicating with boys, he says. "What I found over the years of working with kids and parents is if you break a big conversation down into little chunks where you learn something, that then becomes the start of the next conversation," says Davis, author of "Challenging Boys: A Proven Plan for Keeping Your Cool and Helping Your Son Thrive." "You can get to where you want to go ultimately, but just in a way that's going to be much more successful." Having lengthy discussions with children can overload them and cause them to get emotionally overwhelmed, he explains. This can be especially true when they're younger and more prone to losing focus. Your talks don't have to be exactly one-minute long, but sticking to three to eight minutes is a good rule of thumb, Davis says. Spacing out the conversations throughout the day or week allows you and your child to process the emotions that may come up before you reconvene. "Sometimes you might start a conversation with your kid, and they're really opening up, and it's going great. You've got to override the urge to try to maximize the moment," Davis says. "That's the moment where you really want to tune in to their emotions to make sure that you don't take it too far [and] make it a negative experience. It's better to end with less on the table and everybody feeling good than to have squeezed every possible bit of openness out of that one interaction." Consider these three things when you're trying the 25 1-minute parenting rule: Let's say you received an email about your child not turning in their math assignments, Davis says. Here's an example of how you can use this format to get your kid to open up to you about it. Parent: "I got an email from your teacher saying you haven't been turning in some math assignments. What's up?" Child: "Math is stupid. Can I go?" From this first chat, you can gauge that your child may be having a difficult time with math and may feel uncomfortable with it. A follow-up could be: Parent: "Hey, I've been thinking about what you said about math being stupid. I can remember math being pretty hard sometimes." Child: "Yeah, she makes you show your work." From those two short discussions alone, you would be able to learn that your child doesn't struggle with math but struggles to understand why showing their work is necessary. This approach is much better than chastising your child about not turning in their assignments because you get to the root of the problem. With "these low-stress, little conversations, you can learn something and not overload your kids, so you're creating a positive association to opening up rather than a negative," Davis says.
Los Angeles Times
19-06-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Rebuilding one of the nation's oldest Black churches to begin at Juneteenth ceremony
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia. The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg officially established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that prevented African Americans from congregating. Free and enslaved members erected the original church house around 1805, laying the foundation with recycled bricks. Reconstructing the 16-foot by 32-foot building will help demonstrate that 'Black history is American history,' First Baptist Pastor Reginald F. Davis told The Associated Press before the Juneteenth groundbreaking. 'Oral history is one thing but to have an image to go along with the oral history makes a greater impact on the psyche of oppressed people,' said Davis, who leads the current 215-member congregation in a 20th Century church that is less than a mile from the original site. 'Black Americans have been part of this nation's history before and since the Declaration of Independence.' The original building was destroyed by a tornado in 1834. First Baptist's second structure, built in 1856, stood there for a century. But the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a living history museum, bought the property in 1956 and turned the space into a parking lot. Colonial Williamsburg had covered the costs of building First Baptist's current church house. But for decades it failed to tell the church's pioneering history and the stories of other colonial Black Americans. In recent years, the museum has placed a growing emphasis on telling a more complete story about the nation's founding. Colonial Williamsburg's rebuilding of the church is an opportunity to tell Black history and resurrect the stories of those who originally built it. Rebuilding First Baptist's original meetinghouse will fill an important historical gap, while bolstering the museum's depiction of Virginia's 18th century capital through interpreters and restored buildings. More than half of the 2,000 people who lived in Williamsburg at the time were Black, many of them enslaved. Rev. James Ingram is an interpreter who has for 27 years portrayed Gowan Pamphlet, First Baptists' pastor when the original church structure was built. Pamphlet was an enslaved tavern worker who followed his calling to preach, sermonizing equality, despite the laws that prohibited large gatherings of African Americans out of fear of slave uprisings. 'He is a precursor to someone like Frederick Douglass, who would be the precursor to someone like Martin Luther King Jr.,' Ingram said. 'Gowan Pamphlet was leading the charge.' The museum's archaeologists uncovered the original church's foundation in 2021, prompting Pastor Davis to say then that it was 'a rediscovery of the humanity of a people.' 'This helps to erase the historical and social amnesia that has afflicted this country for so many years,' he said. The archaeologists also located 62 graves, while experts examined three sets of remains and linked them to the congregation. Scientists at William & Mary's Institute for Historical Biology said the teeth of a Black male in his teens indicated some kind of stress, such as malnutrition or disease. 'It either represents the conditions of an enslaved childhood or far less likely — but possibly — conditions for a free African American in childhood,' Michael Blakey, the institute's director, said in 2023. In the early 1800s, the congregation acquired the property for the original church from a local white merchant. The land was low, soft and often soggy — hardly ideal for building, said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's executive director of archaeology. But the church's congregants, many of whom were skilled tradespeople, made it work by flipping bricks on their side and making other adjustments to lay a level foundation. 'It was a marvel that they were able to build a structure there, but also that the structure persists and even grows bigger,' Gary said, adding that the church was later expanded. Based on their excavation, archaeologists surmise there was no heat source, such as a fireplace, no glass in the windows and no plaster finish, Gary said. About 50 people could have sat comfortably inside, possibly 100 if they were standing. The congregation numbered about 500, which included people on surrounding plantations. Services likely occurred outside the church as well. White planters and business owners were often aware of the large gatherings, which technically were banned, while there's documentary evidence of some people getting caught, Gary said. Following Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831, which killed more than 50 white people in Virginia's Southampton County, the congregation was led by white pastors, though it was Black preachers doing the work, Gary said. The tornado destroyed the structure a few years later. The museum is rebuilding the 1805 meetinghouse at its original site and will use common wood species from the time: pine, poplar and oak, said Matthew Webster, the museum's executive director of architectural preservation and research. The boards are already being cut. Construction is expected to finish next year. The windows will have shutters but no glass, Webster said, while a concrete beam will support the new church directly over its original foundation, preserving the bricks. 'When we build the earliest part of the church, we will put bricks on their sides and will lay them in that strange way because that tells the story of those individuals struggling to quickly get their church up,' Webster said. 'And then when we build the addition, it will be this formal foundation that really shows the establishment of the church.' Janice Canaday, who traces her lineage to First Baptist, said Williamsburg's Black community never forgot its original location or that its graves were paved over in the 1950s. 'They will never be able to expunge us from the landscape,' said Canaday, who is also the museum's African American community engagement manager. 'It doesn't matter if you take out the building. It doesn't matter if you ban books. You will never be able to pull that root up because that root is so deep.' Finley writes for the Associated Press.
