Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eckardt, Bertha M. (Voelker) 1974 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net November 20, 2018, 3:52 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 8 Apr 1974 Mrs. Bertha M. Eckhardt, 93, of rural Lake Odessa died Monday morning at Barry county medical facility in Hastings where she had been a patient the past two years. Born June 12, 1880, at Ionia she was the daughter of Christian and Julie Lohrman Voelker. When three she moved to Reed City. June of 1902 she was married at Reed City to Fred Eckardt and they moved to Lake Odessa where she lived the remainder of her life. He died in October 1941. She was an active member of the Lakewood United Methodist church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Cornelia Bloomer of Los Angeles, Calif; two sons, Victor Eckardt of Lake Odessa and Fred of Hastings; three grandchildren; four great grandchildren; brother, Stanley Voelker of Reed City. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Pickens-Koops funeral chapel in Lake Odessa. Rev. Charles Dunbar and Rev. Robert Betts will officiate and interment will be at Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/e/eckardt8614gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb