GEORGETOWN

On Jan. 29, the Legislature honored John “Jack” Swift, a World War II veteran and Georgetown resident who passed away Jan. 5 at age 90.

After graduating Trinity College in Hartford in 1942, Swift served in the Army Air Force in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was discharged as a captain in 1946.

He married Frances Ellen Norton, with whom he had three children, and raised the family predominantly in Madison, Conn., and Khuzestan, Iran.

Swift graduated Yale University in 1948 as a civil engineer and worked as an engineer, planner and manager on civil engineering, environmental research and energy development projects in the United States and abroad from 1948 to 1998. He lived in the United States, Iran, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and traveled to dozens of other countries.

He summered in Georgetown at his grandparents’ cottage at Bay Point in the 1920s and 1930s, and he and his family continued to vacation there with their children.

In 1980, they built a house at Bay Point, becoming full-time residents of Georgetown in 1982.

In Georgetown, he served for many years on the Georgetown Financial Advisory Committee and on the Georgetown Board of Appeals, and represented Georgetown on the Sagadahoc County Budget Advisory Committee. He was the president of the Georgetown Historical Society in the late 1990s, a leader of the GHS Building and Capital Campaigns, and a researcher and writer of Georgetown history. In 2007 he was named Georgetown’s Citizen of the Year.

He was born in London and was brought to the United States at the age of 9 months. 

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