Alan Frederick Sweeton

Alan Frederick Sweeton - 10/24/1983 – 12/15/2025

Alan Frederick Sweeton, age 42, passed away on December 15, 2025, in Augusta, Georgia. A brain cancer survivor, he lost his sight at the age of 24 in 2008 due to complications from the brain tumor surgery. Prior to that, Alan was employed at GfK Market Research in Princeton, NJ where he was an IT Helpdesk Specialist. Born and raised in New Jersey, he moved with his family to Appling, Georgia in 2011.

Alan graduated from Montgomery High School in Skillman, New Jersey in 2001, and attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, from where he graduated in 2006 with a BA in English.

Alan was a member of the Montgomery Evangelical Free Church in Belle Mead, NJ, where he was a member of the youth group and quiz team in high school, went on mission trips to Mexico, and held youth bible studies at his home for both church members and friends from outside his church.

Alan was a member of Cub Scouts and Boy Scout Troop 46 in Montgomery Township, NJ and attended the Boy Scout Junior Leadership training in Cimarron, NM and brought the skills he learned there back to his local region by training other scouts in leadership at the Yards Creek Scout Reservation in Blairstown, NJ.

Alan was very athletic and threw discus and shot put in both high school and college. One of his major and beloved hobbies was playing disc golf. He was a member (#22691) of the Professional Disc Golf Association, the Bucks County Disc Golf Alliance, the Augusta Disc Golf Association, and was a USDGC Partner. Prior to losing his sight, Alan enjoyed traveling to play disc golf tournaments in many different states, and he especially enjoyed playing doubles tournaments with his father. After losing his sight, Alan rarely played, but he enjoyed cheering for the Liberty University Disc Golf Team when they played in the College Disc Golf National Championships and also loved conducting demos for hundreds of school kids each year during the Educational Disc Golf Experience held at the USDGC in Rock Hill, SC.

Alan loved God, his family and friends, his dogs, disc golf, reading, music, movies, and the Eagles. Upon losing his sight, he learned Braille to be able to read the bible, and he was a huge fan of listening to audio books. He inevitably won any trivia game that involved the bible, books, music, or movies.

Alan was predeceased by his paternal grandparents, Gerard and Elena Sweeton, and his maternal grandfather, Maitland Van Nostrand, all of Skillman, NJ.

Alan is survived by his maternal grandmother, Bernice Van Nostrand also of Skillman; his parents Andrew and Virginia Sweeton of Appling, GA, his sister and her husband, Amber and Jordan Schoch of Evans, GA; his paternal aunt, Dari Sweeton of Kennett Square, PA; his maternal aunts and uncles Nancy and David Curtis, and Barbara and Brian Van Liew of Skillman, NJ; his surrogate aunt and uncle Alice and Dan “Uncle Ho” Homan of Hillsborough, NJ; numerous other relatives and cousins; and many life-long friends that he made in work, school, scouting, church, and disc golf.

Alan was an organ donor, and his family rejoices that his gifts of his heart, liver and kidneys will help others to live.

A memorial service for Alan is planned to be held in New Jersey in 2026.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Alan’s name to the Eagles Wings Disc Golf Ministry: https://pushtherock.org/eagles-wings