This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ECKERT, KRAFT, WARKENTINE, JONES, CRANDALL Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JIB.2ACI/12611 Message Board Post: ECKERT, Viola Marie, died June 23, 1990 ECKERT, KRAFT, WARKENTINE, JONES, CRANDALL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Carole Lynn (MOHNEY) CARR, Volunteer Transcriber Transcribed from an original newspaper clipping from the “Sturgis Daily Journal, “ which serves the St. Joseph County, Michigan area. Copy provided by the Sturgis Library, Sturgis, Michigan. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/spl.html Listed on this site are volunteers to do look-ups, check it out to see if they have what you are looking for. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/stjolookups.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sturgis; Viola Marie ECKERT, 87, 207 Spruce St., and formerly of Mendon, died June 23, 1990, at the Sturgis Hospital. She was born Aug. 17, 1902, in Mendon Township, a daughter of John and Lena (KRAFT) WARKENTINE. On May 12, 1921, she married George Carl ECKERT, in Mendon. He died Sept. 16, 1961. She was a homemaker and a member of the Mendon United Methodist Church. She moved to Three Rivers in 1982 and to Sturgis in 1987. Surviving are one son, Lyle ECKERT, Sturgis; 12 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, one daughter, Ruth CRANDALL; one brother, Arthur WARKENTINE; and one sister, Lillian JONES. Relatives and friends may call anytime today at the Eickhoff Funeral Home, Mendon, where the family will receive friends from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today. Services are at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Elaine Buker, Mendon Untied Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mendon Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Mendon Untied Methodist Church. Envelopes are available at the funeral home. END