Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....ECKARDT, Victor V. 2000
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association.  Volume 36, December 2000, Number 3; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Victor V. Eckardt, 95, widower of Eulah Schneider, father of Phyllis Tholin & 
Marilyn Nelson, brother of the late Cornelia Bloomer & Glendon (Fred) Eckardt, 
son of Frederick Albert & Bertha (Voelker) Eckardt.  Vic started school at the 
old Bretz School at the intersection of Tupper Lake Road, Harwood Road, & 
Clinton Trail, a fractional district in Ionia County, by walking down the farm 
lane, going thru a hole in the fence, and crossing the railroad tracks.  His 
parents may have been living on one of the other Eckardt farms around on the 
side road when he started school, because there were three generations of 
Eckardts on the homestead at that time.  Later he attended the Eckardt School 
at Woodbury and Lake Odessa High School.  A life-long farmer, he was first 
elected to Woodland Township Board in 1934, a Republican in Franklin 
Roosevelt's Democratic landslide, as he never tired of telling Democrat 
contemporaries Theo Lenon & Carl Brodbeck.  He served 18 years as Justice of 
the Peace/Township Trustee (all the same job back then), 16 years as Township 
Supervisor, 10 years as Barry County Commissioner, with a term as chairman in 
1960 & 1970.  He served on many boards & commissions, including the founding 
Board of Directors of the Michigan Township Association, of which he was 
president in 1957.  Buried in Woodland Township Memorial Cemetery.

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