Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 20 Mar 2007 MITCHELL - Leah Eichman, 98, died Sunday, March 18, 2007, at the Mitchell Care Center. Her Funeral will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, March 21, at the Jones Mortuary Chapel in Mitchell with Dr. Bill Bibb officiating. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff. A Memorial has been established to the Mitchell Care Center and may be sent to Rowena Lind at 343 West Charles Street, Morrill, NE 69358. Friends may call at the Jones Mortuary in Mitchell, Tuesday, March 20, from 1 to 7 p.m. Condolences may be e-mailed to jonesmor.@charterinternet.com and they will be forwarded to her family. Leah was born Sept. 7, 1908, in Wellington, Colo., the daughter of Henry and Katherine (Cook) Hoff. She moved with her family at the age of 11 to the Sunflower Community where she was raised and educated. Leah was united in marriage to Alexander Eichman Jan. 17, 1929, in Scottsbluff. To this union four children were born. After her husband's death in 1952, she began cooking at the Sunflower School for many years. Leah was a member of the St. Paul's Church in Mitchell and the Church Women's Guild. Survivors include her daugh-ters, Rowena Lind of Morrill, Jeanette (Vern) Dietz of Tucson, Ariz.; son, LeRoy (Hilda) Eichman of Sun City, Ariz.; 11 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; sisters, Amelia Margheim of Mitchell and brother, Alex Hoff of Mitchell. Preceding her in death were her parents; husband; son, Roland; brother, Henry Hoff; sisters, Mollie Becker, Dolly Weitzel, Bertha Hettinger, and Rosie Becker and great-granddaughter, Lindsay Hughson.