June 1, 1939 — November 25, 2022 Don Ray Sweigart, 83 of Sedalia, formerly of Slater and Lincoln, passed away, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, at Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Mo.

Funeral services were at noon, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, at McLaughlin Funeral Chapel, 519 S. Ohio St., Sedalia, MO, with Wellington J. Gorham Jr. officiating. Graveside services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville, with full military honors by the United States Navy and the Higginsville American Legion Post #223. The family received friends from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, at McLaughlin Funeral Chapel. Memorials are suggested to Wounded Warriors Project in care of the funeral home.

Don was born June 1, 1939, in Elizabethtown, Pa., to the late Chester and Bertha (Bricker) Sweigart. He attended area schools.

Don served his country in the United States Navy, during the Vietnam Era, on the USS Ticonderoga. He was honorably discharged on Oct. 12, 1961. While serving he received the good conduct medal.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Slater. He was also a life member of the American Legion Post #78 of Slater. He was an honor flight participant.

Don did many jobs throughout his life. He was a meat cutter for Nobles Meat Co. in California. He later worked at the Slater Garment factory as a mechanic, Marshall Democrat-News office in advertising, and Con-Agra of Marshall in maintenance.

On May 17, 2003, at East Sedalia Baptist Church, in Sedalia, he married Mary H. Kabler, who survives of Sedalia.

Additional survivors include son David Sweigart of Laverne, Minn.; daughters Sandy Martin (Troy) of Hennessey, Okla., and Marti Dawn Long (companion Randy Schnakenberg) of Windsor, and Judie Russell of Fresno, Calif.; brothers Robert Sweigart (Terri Zimmerman-Sweigart) of Slater and Dale Sweigart (fiancé Louise “Peaches” Calvert) of Kansas City, Mo.; seven grandchildren, Angela Rawlings (Jeremy), Misty Hicks, DJ Sweigart, Ashley Koehn, Ricky Russell, Sean Russell and Nicholas Martin; along with eight great-grandchildren, Christian Rawlings, Gavin Rawlings, Reanna Martin, Abigail Holsten, Lacey Hicks, Taylor Hicks, Emily Koehn and Addison Koehn.

Don was preceded in death by his first wife, Ann Armstrong Sweigart; and two sisters.