Obituary: Victor Daniel Eckert, July 18, 2013

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
April 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - July 26, 2013

Victor Daniel Eckert, 89, went to be with his heavenly Father on July 18, 
2013. Visitation was from 9 am to 8 pm on Monday, July 22, 2013, at the 
funeral home with family present from 5 pm to 7 pm to receive visitors. 
Funeral services were held at 10 am, Tuesday, July 23, 2013, at Shaffer 
Funeral Home's Sherwood Way chapel, officiated by Reverend Taylor Sandlin 
and CH (COL) Lewis Burnett. Interment followed in Robert Lee Cemetery. 
Pallbearers were Kyle Kemp, Daniel Kemp, Amy Wolslager, Emily Eckert, 
Monk McKay, K.C. Collier, Robert Heinze and Pat McCrea. Services were 
under the direction of Shaffer Funeral Home/Sherwood Way.

Victor was born in Miles, Texas, on October 8, 1923, to Effie and Dan 
(Dandy) Eckert. The youngest of five children, he was raised on a cotton 
farm east of Miles where he learned how to milk, plow, plant, ride, hunt 
and fish. This is what led him to learn the value of hard work at an 
early age. 

Victor and Joyce Hester were married on April 19, 1942. He worked for 
Gulf Oil on a seismograph crew as a shooter. He was inducted into the 
Navy Seabees, May 14, 1943,where he served in the Pacific Theater for 
two years and seven months. Victor was in five invasions and received 
many awards, his company commanders first address to his battalion was 
"The Difficult would be done immediately, The IMPOSSIBLE, well it might 
take a little longer, but it would get done!!! Victor lived by this motto.

Eckert Building Contractors began in 1947. He was a General Contractor 
responsible for many commercial and residential buildings in the West 
Texas area.
 
Friends will remember the many stories of his family, war, hunting, fishing, 
gardening, and farm life.

Preceding him to that Garden in Heaven, his wife, Joyce Eckert, on April 10, 
2010 and one granddaughter Tamela Lewis.

Victor is survived by his three children, Mike Eckert and wife Estelle, 
Becky Eckert and Vicky Eckert; grandchildren, Kyle Kemp and wife Sandy, 
Robin Kemp, Andrew Read, Amy Wolslager and husband Joe, Grant Eckert and 
Kristy Buckingham, Emily Eckert, and grandson-in-law Mike Lewis; 
great-grandchildren, Daniel Kemp and Zoie Allen; and many nieces and 
nephews.

In lieu of flowers, please contribute to Baptist Memorial Hospice.
Thank you to all the home health and hospice nurses and aids. Honorary 
Pall Bearers were the grandchildren and great-grand children.
The family is very thankful for the Care and Compassion shown by 
Dr. Barnett during this time.

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