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                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 

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DATE: Saturday, November 4, 1995             TAG: 9511040228

SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 

DATELINE: NEW ALBANY, IND.                   LENGTH: Short :   25 lines


ROBERT F. ECKERT

Robert F. Eckert, 82, died Nov. 2, 1995, in the Rolling Hills Health Care Center.

He was a native of Madison, Ind., and a retired sales manager for Smith Furniture, Louisville, Ky. He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.

Mr. Eckert is survived by his daughter, Joyce Arnold of Floyds Knobs, Ind.; two sons, Bob Eckert of New Albany, and Don Eckert of Chesapeake; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. today in the Seabrook Dieckmann and Naville Oak Street Funeral Home. Burial in Graceland Memorial Park. Visitation is after 10 a.m. today. Expressions to the Hospice of Southern Indiana, P.O. Box 17, New Albany, Ind. 47151-0017.

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