Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

 

Charles William Bickel

Aug. 18, 1921 – Mar. 23, 1968

 

South Bend Tribune 3/25/1968

Charles William Bickel

Mrs. and Mrs. Charles A. Bickel, 234 E. Edgar Ave., have received word of the death of their son, Chief Warrant Officer Charles William Bickel, Saturday in San Diego, Calif.

Warrant Officer Bickel, 46, was born Aug. 18, 1921 in Mishawaka.  He married Mary Lou Connors on Oct. 6, 1942 in South Bend.

Surviving in addition to his wife and parents are three daughters, Mrs. Russell Almand of Anaheim, Calif.; Pamela and Deborah at home; a son, Kenneth at home; a brother, David P. Bickel of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Raymond Ramsey and Mrs. Russell Hoffman, both of Mishawaka.

Attending the military funeral Tuesday afternoon in California from Mishawaka will be the parents and sisters of the deceased.  Internment will be Wednesday morning.

Warrant Officer Bickel served in the United States Navy for 28 years, and was a member of the F&AM Lodge 130 in Mishawaka.  He was a 32nd Degree Mason and belonged to the Shrine Club in Albuquerque, N.M.

 

South Bend Tribune 3/30/1968

Charles F. Bickel

Funeral services were held today in San Diego, Calif., for Chief Warrant Officer W-4 Charles W. Bickel, 46, a former South Bend resident who died last Saturday in San Diego after suffering an apparent heart attack.  Burial was in El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.  He was born in Mishawaka on Aug. 18, 1921, and enlisted in the Navy in 1939.  On Oct. 6, 1942, at South Bend, he married Mary Lou Connors, who survives.  Also surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bickel of Mishawaka; a son, Kenneth David at home in San Diego; three daughters, Mrs. Valerie Jeanne Almand of Anaheim, Calif., and Miss Pamela Jane and Miss Debra Blaine, both at home; two sisters, Mrs. Elsie J. Ramsey of Mishawaka, and Mrs. Barbara R. Hoffman of South Bend; and a brother, David P. Bickel of South Bend.