Mrs. Leola Shepard Swearingen, 93, passed on September 28, 2012. Services will be held Saturday, October 6, 2012, with a visitation beginning at 11:00 A.M. Following will be the Homegoing Services beginning at 1:00P.M. Both services will be held in the Garden of Hope Chapel of Paradise Funeral Home. Pastor Vernon R. Strahan, of the St. Luke Baptist Church, will bring forth the Words of Comfort. Mrs. Swearingen, shall peacefully rest until the rapture between her beloved husband Pastor Limuel James Swearingen, Sr. and daughter Patrina Williams. Leola will always be remembered as a Loving, God -Fearing Woman and Mother!