Funeral is Wednesday for Niobrara teacher

A large group of mourners is expected tomorrow for a teacher’s funeral in northeast Nebraska. The funeral will be held in the gymnasium at Niobrara High School where Jill Metzler Swanson had taught.
The 34-year-old Swanson fell on the ice an hit her head last week and died on Thursday at a Sioux Falls hospital. Swanson was a Creighton native, she was married and had four kids.
Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery southwest of Niobrara.