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Surnames: Acker, Springer, Mathason, Eichar, Brown, Lehman
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Monday, April 6, 1981
Laura O. Acker, 86, 235 N. Third St., died at 5:35 p.m. Sunday at the Adams County
Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient since February 12.
Born April 9, 1894 in Mercer County, Ohio, she was the daughter of Louis and Esther
Mathason Springer. She was married in 1912 to Walter Eichar, who passed away January 3,
1945, and in 1950 was married to Floyd Acker, who died in April of 1972.
A housewife, Mrs. Acker was a member of Zion United Church of Christ.
Survivors include three children, Clois Eicher of Decatur, Mrs. Harry (Nina) L. Brown
of Fort Wayne, and Donn Eichar, also of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. A daughter, Fay Lehman, passed away in 1961; also deceased are four
sisters and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Zwick, Boltz & Jahn Funeral
Home, Rev. Harold Ley in charge, and burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. Friends may
call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday; the family will receive friends from 2-5
and 7-9 p.m that day.