The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Dennis Carl Eckman received the ultimate promotion, joining the lord in heaven on May 23, 2022 at home in Windsor at the age of 82.

A career farmer and family man, Dennis was born to Carl and Valva Eckman in Sterling on Nov. 11, 1939. He grew up in the Fairfield community northeast of Haxtun and attended the Fairfield school through eighth grade then graduated from Haxtun High School and finished six semesters at Colorado State University.

Dennis joined his father at the farm, married Barbara Byrkit in 1965 and they had three sons together. Dennis was very involved in the Haxtun Unite...