MYERS, Eston Lex
ESTON LEX MYERS 
Thanks so much to his daughter, Linda for this picture
Eston enlisted in the Navy on the 3rd of April 1945 (with two children) and was out just a little over a year later on 12 April. Although born and raised in Fountain County (July 15, 1918 son of Herman "Lex" and Hazel Purnell Myers), where he graduated from Kingman HS, he spent much of his life at 607 West Main Street in Waveland, Indiana where he and his amazing wife, Berniece raised six children (Jerry, Sandy, Linda, Brenda, Byron and Carol). He worked at Wabash College in the maintenance department as a security guard for several years, and also helped his brother, Bob, in an upholstery business. They were amazing upholsterers.
Linda shared a nifty tale about when Eston was in the war.
"One story about while dad was in the Navy. He would write mom letters. At the time we lived on a farm outside of Wallace with no really close neighbors. When dad left, they had two childre, Jerry and Sandy. The postman would deliver her a letter from dad and she would hurry and respond to him then she would have Jerry ride his bike on the back road where he would meet the postman close to the end of his route, and send off her letters to dad. I always thought that was the greatest story." - (linda) - thanks so much for sharing this - what an awesome tale and I can so see it, too.
Active in so many organizations in the Waveland community, Eston was a member of the Waveland Fire Department, the VFW and American Legion. I remember Eston as being very nice and almost always with a smile on his face.
It was a shock to the whole community when he passed away at such a young age of 58 on February 23, 1977. He is buried in the Old Union Cemetery.