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Next Club Meeting: September 17 7:30pm EOC See the Club Calendar Officer/Trustee Page 
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History: Wilson E. Weckel, the Original W8AL
In the near future, this page will contain biographical information about The Canton Amateur Radio Club's Callsign-sake, Wilson E. Weckel, W8AL. Look for more information in the August / September issue of The Feedline, to be republished here in due time.
For now, I have recently discovered his obituary on Page 11 of the Thursday, December 29, 1971 edition of The Canton Repository, found on microfilm at the Stark Country District Library in downtown Canton:
One of Canton's best known "ham" radio operators, Wilson E. Weckel, 72, of 1317 Logan Ave. NW, died Wednesday morning in Timken Mercy Hospital.
A life resident of the area, Mr. Weckel was the grandson of Wilson C. Berger, founder of the Berger Mfg. Co.
He was a member of the Church of the Savior United Methodist, Nazir Grotto, Wm. McKinley Lodge, F&AM, the U.S. Naval Institute, the Amateur Radio Relay League, the Canton Radio Club, and the Old-Timers and Quarter Century Radio Clubs.
He is survived by his widow, Ruth Weckel; a son, Richard B. Weckel of Canton, and six grandchildren. A son, Wilson E. Weckel Jr., died in 1964.
Private services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Spiker-Foster funeral home. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery.
There are no calling hours.
Wm. McKinley Lodge will have private services tonight at 7 in the funeral home.
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