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Melvin Lee “Mel” Eckard Veteran

Birth: 7 Jan 1938
Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, USA
Death: 5 Apr 2022 (aged 84)
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
Burial: Cremated Add to Map
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Created by: Rebecca ECKARD Wilson Relative Child
Added: Sep 1, 2015
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Here's a handsome picture of my dear father "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard, when he was in the United States Army, in (1961-1963).

"Thanks," Pop Melvin, for your service to our great country, and for fighting for my Freedom... Love and Hugs, Your eldest child and daughter, Rebecca Sue. :)

(Source): My father "Pop" Melvin showed me this military picture of him in (June of 2013).

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My dear "Pop" Melvin sent me this picture of him (when he was a cute adorable little boy," in Chesterhill, Morgan County, Ohio., around "2 years of age," around (1940). When I showed my Mother (Sandra Fay) this picture she said I looked like my Dad.

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Melvin Lee Eckard (on the right) posing with his Triplet Cousin, Patricia Ann Fogarasy, in Chesterhill, Morgan County, Ohio, around (1941-42). My Dad "Pop" Melvin sent me this cute picture.

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My young father (Melvin Lee Eckard) around 5 or 6 years of age, in Newark, Licking County, Ohio.

(Source): My father "Pop" Melvin showed me this cute picture of him in (June of 2013) so I took a picture of it, and added color to it, too.

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Melvin Lee Eckard, in the U.S. Army during (1961-63) stationed over in Frankfurt, Germany. My Dad "Pop" Melvin mailed me this picture of him.

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My Dad "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard, in the U.S. Army (stationed in Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Germany) from (1961-1963). He was an Army Mechanic (worked on the Jeeps, Trucks and Army Tanks).

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Me (Rebecca Sue) at (47), with my father, "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard, (75), on "Mount Pleasant Lookout Mountain," in (June 2013), in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio.

(Source): My Dad's childhood friend (David Cocanour) went with us and had taken this picture of my father and I together, on Mount Pleasant "Lookout Mountain," in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio., when I went to visit my father in Newark, Ohio. "Thanks," Dave. :)

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My Dad showing me his "Army Helmet," from his Army Days, on (June 11th, 2013), in Newark, Licking County, Ohio.

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My Dad "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard on (June 11th, 2013) at his house in Newark, Licking County, Ohio (when I spent time with him, from (June 11th-27th, 2013).

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My Dad "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard took me to see his Family's ECKARD Road Sign, in Centerville, Montgomery Co, Ohio, on (June 24th, 2013) so I took his picture. He picked me those flowers, too.

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One of my Dad "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard's favorite thing to do "was sitting in front of the "Newark Courthouse" to listen to the Courthouse Music. So I took his picture on (July 13th, 2020), downtown at the (Square), in Newark, Licking Co, Ohio.

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My Dad (Pop) Melvin Lee Eckard, showed me his Family ECKARD Road Sign, in Centerville, Ohio, on (June 24, 2013). He's holding some "Blue Flowers," that he picked for me, bless his heart.

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My Dad "Pop" Melvin Lee Eckard, at the Greyhound Bus Station, on (June 28th, 2013), in Zanesville, Ohio., after we spent "16 Days" together (meeting each other for the first time and we had a wonderful visit and bonded instantly) that we Cried.

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My Dad on (February 28th, 2020) when I treated him to dinner at Long John Silvers, in Heath, Ohio (after Me and Dad went to see our first Movie together, to see "Call Of The Wild"). Bless my Dad, he was tired afterwards.

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