This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ECKERT, WARKENTINE, CROTSER, CRANDALL Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JIB.2ACI/12608 Message Board Post: ECKERT, Lyle J., died Dec. 8, 1990 ECKERT, WARKENTINE, CROTSER, 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; Lyle J. ECKERT, 68, 202 St. Joseph St., died Dec. 8, 1990, at Sturgis Hospital, where he had been a patient one day. He was born June 21, 1922, in Mendon, a son of George Carl and Viola (WARKENTINE) ECKERT. On July 8, 1950, he married Wava CROTSER, in Mendon. He graduated from Mendon High School in 1941 and was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving during World War II. He was a former Prisoner of War. After his marriage, he and his wife lived in Mendon, later moving to Burr Oak. He was a Sturgis resident the past four years. He was self employed in the plumbing and heating business several years and he also worked 21 years as a tool and die machine repairman at Doerr Products, Burr Oak. Surviving are his wife; four sons, Mark ECKERT, Milwaukee, Wis., Phil ECKERT, Burr Oak, Tom ECKERT and Dan ECKERT, both of Sturgis; two daughters, Julia ECKERT and Debbie ECKERT, both of Sturgis. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Ruth CRANDALL. Services were at 1 p.m. today at the Sturgis Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. John Shoup officiating. Military committal was by the Snow-Hasbrouck Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4898, Mendon, in Burr Oak Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by the Eickhoff Funeral Home, Mendon. Memorials may be directed to the Sturgis Church of the Nazarene Building Fund or the charity of one’s choice. Envelopes are available at the funeral home. END