CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - ETHEL LECKLER ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Theresa Korth. theresayk@yahoo.com Permission granted by Theresa Korth. Published in: The Magnet Cemetery Directory, T. Korth ====================================================================== ETHEL LECKLER Ethel Leckler was born in Bruel County South Dakota, November 8, 1884 and died at her home in West Plains, Colorado July 1, 1918. At the age of nine years, she moved with her parents to Magnet Nebraska, arriving here December 25, 1893. Here the freedom of childhood and youth matured into the responsibilities of womanhood. On July 28, 1917, occurred her marriage to Mr. Fred Leckler of Magnet, Nebr. and to this union were born five children, a daughter who died in infancy and four sons. Mr. and Mrs. Leckler moved to West Plains, Colorado in the spring of 1913 and settled on a homestead where they experienced all the hardships of frontier life, but Mrs. Leckler would not permit these hardships to interfere with the discharge of her religious duties. She has always taught a class in Sunday school when her health permitted and was a member in good standing of the Methodist Epsicopal Church. The news of Mrs. Lecklers’ sudden demise came to her relatives and friends as a thunder crash out of a clear sky. The remains arrived in Magnet, Wednesday evening accompanied by her husband and children, Mr. Lecklers father and mother and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leckler all of West Plains, Colo. Mrs. Leckler is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John and Irena Baker of Magnet; two sisters, Mrs. Leona Dodson of Wayne, Nebr. and Mrs. Roena Leckler of West Plains, Colo., three brothers Avery, serving his county in the navy, Ray of Neligh and Arnold of Amherst, Colo; her husband and children.