ABOVE LEFT: Henry and Elizabeth (Ziegler) Hecht lived at 327 Morton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, pictured here in an undated photo. This is the home that Henry built with money borrowed from his father. ABOVE RIGHT: Elizabeth (Ziegler) Hecht sits in the yard alongside this same house.
ABOVE LEFT: Wedding photo of Charles Hecht, the eldest surviving son of Henry and Elizabeth Hecht, and his bride, Amelia Helen Lienesch.
They were married in September 1895 at Holy Trinity Church in Dayton. ABOVE RIGHT: Charles’s sister Dora Hecht and Amelia’s brother Bernard were attendants in the wedding.
To see a photo that includes siblings Charles and Dora Hecht in their later years, click here.
ABOVE LEFT: Amelia’s father, Bernard Lienesch.
ABOVE RIGHT: Charles and Amelia’s two eldest children, Edward Bernard (1898-1964) [seated] and Eugene H. Hecht (1896-1912) [standing].
ABOVE LEFT: Dorothy Gertrude Hecht (1903-1993), daughter of Amelia and Charles Hecht. ABOVE RIGHT: Amelia (Lienesch) Hecht and her husband Charles J. Hecht, in a photo airbrushed with color by Dorothy.
ABOVE LEFT: Wedding photo of Edward Bernard Hecht, the eldest surviving child of Charles and Amelia (Lienesch) Hecht, and his bride, Clara Elizabeth Amann. They were married at Emanuel Church in Dayton on November 26, 1919 – Thanksgiving Day.
ABOVE RIGHT: Edward B. Hecht in uniform: He worked for the city of Dayton as a policeman.
ABOVE: Edward and Clara Hecht were blessed with twin boys,
Robert and Richard.
All photos on this page courtesy of Nathan Hecht and his father, Richard J. Hecht.