Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

 

George M. Bickel

Jan. 12, 1885 – June 11, 1962

 

South Bend Tribune 6/12/1962

George M. Bickel

A lifetime resident of Mishawaka, George M. Bickel, 77, of 138 St. Lo Ave., died at 6 p.m. Monday in St. Joseph’s Hospital.  He had been in ill health for the last three years.

Mr. Bickel was born in Mishawaka and on April 17, 1909, he married Elizabeth M. Holland in St. Joseph’s Church.  He retired from the Ball-Band Plant 10 years ago after being employed there for 50 years.

Surviving are his widow; three sons, Carl and Virgil of Mishawaka and Lawrence of Elkhart; one daughter, Mrs. Fred G. Cecchi, of Mishawaka; two brothers, Otto Bickel, of Cassopolis and Henry Bickel, of Edwardsburg, and a sister, Mrs. Ralph Holland of Kingsford Heights, Ind.

Friends may call in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Chapel after 6 p.m. Wednesday and until the funeral services at 9 a.m. Friday in St. Monica’s Church.  Rev. Leo A. Hoffmann, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

 

South Bend Tribune 6/14/1962

George M. Bickel

Funeral services for George M. Bickel, 77, of 138 St. Lo Ave., who died Monday, will be at 9 a.m. Friday in St. Monica’s Church.  Rev. Leo. A Hoffmann, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.  Friends may call in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home and the rosary will be recited there at 8 p.m. today.  Pallbearers will be Frank Miller, Cletus Mickels, Richard and Ralph Howland, Jr. and Eugene and Franklin Bickel.