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Mariachi band playing outside Paul Ecke Sr.'s 80th birthday party in Barn 2 at the Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA. 

Maureen Ecke with Corinne May on the beach

Maurer family home in late 1890's / early 1900's, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Magdalena Maurer married Paul Ecke Sr.. 

From left to right: Clara Maurer Muerdter, Ruth Maurer Vogel (white earings), Ben Maurer (in the back), Esther Maurer (brown plaid jacket), Paul Ecke Sr., Sue Harper, Billie Maurer (Ben Maurer's wife in white sweater, behind Sue). This picture was…

Max Ecke (Paul Ecke III's son) and Paul Ecke Jr. in the poinsettia field along Saxony Road at the Paul Ecke Ranch. 

Mel Maurer, Magdalena Ecke's brother. This photograph was displayed in the Ecke Ranch house with photographs of other family friends. At the bottom right of the photograph it says: "To Paul Jr. With best regards, Uncle Mel"

Paul Ecke Sr. (seated, sixth from the left), Jim Leider from Chicago, and other unidentified people. The group met annually to travel and visit floriculture sites across the world. 

On the car it says "Happy Birthday Pete"

Family Circle article about poinsettias and the Ecke family

From left to right: Michellee, Andre Chen, and Shante. Unknown connection to the Ecke family.

Henrietta Moehring (Ecke), seated on right, with her parents and step-sister. 

The Molbak family were customers (and friends) of the Paul Ecke Ranch from Seattle.