The Hammond Times Indiana Oct. 31, 1956 Obits 68 Year Region Resident Dies Munster Phillip R. ECKMAN, 68, of 8345 Kraay Avenue, Munster, died Tuesday at St. Margarets. He was a life long resident of the Hammond area. He was a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church of Hammond. A former employee of Lever Brothers, where he worked for 23 years, ECKMAN was employed at the Indiana Botanic Gardens for the last three years. Services Friday at the Huber Funeral Home, Hammond, with Rev. Paul Shaeffer officiating. Burial in the Elmwood cemetery, Hammond. Survivors: Widow: Katherine Son: Russell Daughter: Lenore HANAS, all of Munster.