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530. EMMA J.¹⁷ SECKEL (HENRY F.¹⁶, JOSEPH MONTGOMERY¹⁵, HENRY¹⁴, JOHN COOPER¹³, HEINRICH¹², JURG DAVID¹¹, GEORG FRIEDRICH¹⁰, HANS GEORG⁹, WILHELM⁸, BERNHARD⁷, LIENHARD⁶, KLAUS⁵, KLAUS⁴, KONZ³, DIETRICH BUTTEL², DIETRICH¹) was born May 10, 1936. She married (1) RAY L. BISIG. She married (2) ROBERT D. SEARLES.

       Children of EMMA SECKEL and RAY BISIG are:
 

       Children of SHIRLEY SECKEL and DONALD SAMS are:
 

       Children of IDA SECKEL and DAVID DOWNING are:
 

       Children of SUSAN SECKEL and EARNEST HAWKINS are:
 

       Children of MARY SECKEL and EUGENE BOYDSTON are:
 

       Children of DOROTHY SECKEL and JOE WRIGHT are:
 

       Children of ANDREW SECKEL and MARY MURPHY are:
 

       Children of MABEL SECKEL and CHARLES HOFSTETTER are:
 

       Children of CARL SECKEL and MILDRED MOSIER are:
 

Notes for ROLLIE JAY SECKEL:
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                             Rollie Jay Seckel
(1897-1972)
Rollie was born in Marion, Ohio, September 22, 1897, the son of James Hutchison and Bertha Elizabeth (Ramsey) Seckel. He joined the Ohio National Guard June 19, 1916. He was promoted to Corporal on July 17, 1917 and served in the U.S. Army during World War I in France, engaging in battles at Champag- nes from July 4 to July 22, 1918, Chateau Thierry July 27 to August 4, 1918, St. Michael, September 12, to September 30, 1918, and the Argonne Forest where he was gassed, October 5, to November 3, 1918. He was discharged and again served in the Ohio National Guard as a 1st Sargent, Co. "B", 145th Ohio Infantry, until age 28.
In the meantime he married Violet Smith, of Liverpool, England, daughter of Charles and Margaret Bassnett Smith. They were the parents of seven children - Charles E., born 1924, Mildred V., born 1925, Herbert J., born 1928, Rollie J. Jr.., born 1930, Fredrick L., born 1933, Arthur., born 1936 and Rita D., born 1938. He worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., and was also a paperhanger and painter, working with his brother Paul.
In his late years he lived with his daughter Mildred and spent winters either in Tallahassee, Fla. with his son Herb or in Ft. Myers, Fla. fishing, until he went to live at the V.A. Home in Dayton, Ohio where he died August 16, 1972. He is interned at East Akron Cemetery next to Violet who died on her daughter Mildred's fifteenth birthday, February 5, 1940.

       Children of ROLLIE SECKEL and VIOLET SMITH are:
 

Notes for LEROY EARL SECKEL:
                     Leroy Earl Seckel
                      (1899-19 )

Leroy Earl was born in Marion, Ohio in 1899, the son of James Hutchison and Bertha Elizabeth (Ramsey) Seckel. He was first married to Goldie Gilcher and had two sons, Ronald and Junior (Joe). He married his second wife Nell after Goldie died. He was a pretty good minor league baseball pitcher, left handed, but gave that up when he hurt his arm. He was very handy with all kinds of tools and did his own house painting, ect. He fell off a roof which is what he eventually died from. Both of his sons left home at an early age and have never been heard from again.

       Children of LEROY SECKEL and GOLDIE GILCHER are:
 

Notes for LOIS MILDRED SECKEL:
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               Lois (Seckel) Baird
               Cleveland, Ohio
        (1905-1970)

Lois Mildred Seckel was born March 21, 1907 in Marion, Ohio the daughter of James Hutchison and Bertha Elizabeth (Ramsey) Seckel. Lois graduated from high school in 1924. She married Vernon Staats in Galion, Ohio and they had one son - Richard Glenn Staats. She then married George Royal Baird, born September 25, 1896 in North Ridgeville, Ohio on July 14, 1930 and they had two daughters - Marie Elizabeth., born January 14, 1934 and Lois Marie., born July 13, 1936.

Lois and Roy raised their niece Rita from age 4 to age 12. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio and were custodians of a 15 apartment building. Lois was always known as Ma Baird by all the kids in the neighborhood and was very well loved by all. She was a large woman with dark brown eyes and a big and loving heart. Lois died February 26, 1970. Roy died May 23, 1972. They are interned at Riverview Cemetery, Elyria, Ohio.
 

       Child of LOIS SECKEL and VERNON STAATS is:
 

Notes for ROBERT PAUL SECKEL:
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(1907-1974)
Robert Paul Seckel was born in Larue, Ohio on September 14, 1907, the son of James Hutchenson and Bertha Elizabeth (Ramsey) Seckel. The family then moved to Galion, Ohio where Paul went to school. Paul married Beatrice "Babe" Seckel. They were divorced shortly after. He then married Nina Pauline (Jacobs) Seckel, daughter of Charles and Margaret Ann (Griggs) Jacobs. Pauline had a daughter Mary Margaret Jacobs. Paul and Pauline had two children - Barbara Joan., born February 10, 1945. Robert Eugene., born May 26, 1946. Paul worked
for Nye Rubber Company in Barberton, Ohio for many years and also as a paper-
hanger and painter with his brother Rollie. Paul's nickname was Cy or Sy and I do not know where it came from but I do remember him being Uncle Sy. He had a great sense of humor and was always teasing someone. His step-daughter Mary always called him "Popcicle" (Pop Seckel). Paul died April 2, 1974, Pauline died November 2, 1988 and both are interned at Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, Ohio.
 

       Children of ROBERT SECKEL and NINA JACOBS are:
 

Notes for KENNETH B. SECKEL:
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                      Kenneth B. Seckel
                      (1913- )

Guardian of Presidents Reflects on 24 Years

It is physically impossible to guarantee the safety of the president of the United States, is the considered view of a man who spent 24 years of his life guarding five presidents.
Kenneth B. Seckel, who recently retired as a captain of the White House police, looks back over these turbulent years from his pleasant home in Crestridge Gardens, just north of Tarpon Springs, Fla., at the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the attempted assassination of Harry Truman, the death of John F. Kennedy and threats every week, every day, against the president.

The living room of Seckel's home is lined with the autographed pictures of all the presidents from Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, years of change in the world and in the White House.

The big, stocky Ohioan and his wife Polly, a retired medical Illustrator at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, haven't yet figured out - as no one else has - what has made assassination something close to commonplace in the United States.
He chalks up the death of Robert Kennedy and the recently uncovered plot to kill President-elect Richard Nixon as "ethnic" - the ill feeling of the Arab world toward anyone who esposes the cause of Israel.

Seckel recalls driving one day with President Roosevelt from Hyde Park, N.Y. to his mother's New York apartment. The president wanted to go over some papers belonging to his mother who had recently died. "My god," he says, "we had about 20 percent of the police force of New York City involved (in the president's protection), and I got out of his car and there were a thousand people hanging out windows all over the neighborhood. I said to one of the Secret Service men then
if anyone wanted to take a pot shot there wasn't much that could be done.

Seckel was on duty in the White House when Mrs. Roosevelt got word the president had died of a massive stroke in Warm Springs, Ga. Years later he and his wife were headed out of Washington one day for their retreat on the Severn River in Maryland, when he walked into a grocery store and heard the news of the death of President Kennedy. He turned around and went back to the White House. "I didn't see him for three days," Polly Seckel says.

Seckel, a native of Marion, Ohio, first came in contact with the presidency at the age of 10 when "they brought Warren Harding home to be buried." He wheedled himself into the good graces of a wire service photographer who paid him $10 a day to haul his camera gear around Marion.

In looking back, Seckel has a pet theory he thinks history - some day - will bear out. One day he took from the hand of President Harry Truman a handwritten letter addressed to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. That would have been in about 1947. And as Seckel took the letter to a classified pouch to be delivered to Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Nato, he said to himself that this was Truman's invitation to Eisenhower to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. It was speculation that made good sense at the time, for both Democrats and Republicans were vying for the hand of the American "hero" of World War II.

"He turned him down, and that's why Truman never forgave him. Never liked him again," theorizes Seckel, swearing that one day it will all come out. Of the five first ladies under whom he served, he says, Elenor Roosevelt cared least for the Whie House, its furniture or the food that went on it tables. She was too immersed in causes.

"Bess Truman was the best housekeeper," he recalls. "When they (the Trumans) moved in there, she wanted to cook the president's food. But when she realized what she was into, she really ran that place - just as if it wre her own."

When he retired, Seckel got a letter from Lyndon Johnson. "Dear Capt. Seckel,: the president wrote him. "As you begin your first week of retirment, I want to express to you my warm personnal appreciation and gratitude for the service you have rendered to your county by your faithful performance of duty.."
But after 24 years of watching president come and go, Seckel still hasn't figured out why anyone on earth wants the job. "Threatening letters and nuts trying to climb the fence every day," he says shaking his head.

@Ken St. Petersburg Times - November 12, 1968

       Children of KENNETH SECKEL and FLORA POLLEY are:
 

       Children of JOHN SECKEL and MARY HORAK are:
 

       Children of MARTHA SECKEL and JOHN KINSLER are:
 

       Children of DONNA SECKEL and GEORGE CLARK are: