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This post honors my dear husband Wayne D Eckman, and also his twin brother Blaine D Eckman.  Blaine passed away on March 19, 1999, but Wayne passed away just 2 years ago today, February 21, 2016.  They are now together, and probably doing missionary work speaking Swedish! I posted this 2 years ago today -- It was entry # 600. To those who don't know, my husband, Wayne D Eckman, passed from this life into the Spirit World, and eternity, early this Sunday morning about 3:45 a.m.     He had missed his identical twin brother so much, and said that Blaine was in his dreams almost every night!  They are now reunited, with their parents, and some siblings! This post is rather long, as it includes reposting some entries I posted before.   Wayne, left, and Blaine, right, after retirement, both living in St. George. Blaine left, and Wayne, right, on their missions in Sweden.  He had been failing quite a bit since he...

This is a short part of the video we took on my husband Wayne's 70th birthday.  It tells a well-known family story of when he and his twin brother Blaine were in the army.

I It has been 6 months today since my dear husband Wayne D Eckman passed from this life into eternity.  I miss him so much!  But I'm sure he and his twin brother Blaine are very busy up there, having fun, and doing missionary work! The picture above was the spring of 1956, after we were married, at Dixie College.  The photo below was also about that time, when he was in college. I've written many articles about him, which you can find under the "labels" under his name, Eckman Wayne D.  There are several articles about him and his twin brother Blaine.   This was taken 10 years before he passed away, when he was 75, and I was 71, about our Golden Wedding time.

For any of you who have lost loved ones, a spouse, a sibling, or a child, this quoted below is most comforting information.   Wayne's funeral was 2 weeks and 2 days ago.  For the first few days, several of my children, and friends, would call to see how I am.  I know they still care, but their lives are busy, and they have gone back to life as it was before mostly.  And in this life I will never be able to go back to life as it was.  As I told one of our daughters, in any couple, one of you has to pass away first.  So true!  How many billions of people have gone through this very experience!  And yet when it is yourself, it becomes so personal.  Even though it seems strange to say it, I am grateful he was the first to go. (for his sake!) This was the program when Wayne and Blaine went on their first mission to Sweden, arriving in Sweden in December, 1950.  Blaine went on his eternal mission in 1999, and now Wayne has joined ...