Breckinridge-Meade County KyArchives Obituaries.....BIRCHER, John Jr. November 10, 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com August 5, 2017, 11:35 pm Breckinridge County Herald News, Friday, November 25, 1960 Obituary -from the "MEADE COUNTY MESSENGER" newspaper John BIRCHER, Jr., of Brandenburg (Meade County), Ky, age 82, died November 10, 1960 at Hardin Memorial Hospital, Elizabethtown (Hardin County), Ky, where he had been almost 3 weeks suffering from Pneumonia and complications. He was born June 6, 1878 in Louisville (Jefferson County), Ky, the son of John BIRCHER, who moved to Brandenburg while he was very young, and he was reared there. He joined the Brandenburg Methodist Church in 1898. He spent 52 years in telephone work. Surviving him are: his wife Mrs. Bessie FOOTE BIRCHER two sons: T/Sgt. John G. BIRCHER, in the Air Force stationed in Japan Gerard BIRCHER, Madison, Indiana 3 grandchildren: Barbara Sue BIRCHER Linda Sue BIRCHER John Phillip BIRCHER 2 nieces and 2 nephews two sisters: Miss Frances BIRCHER, Pasadena, California Mrs. E. J. APPLEGATE, Brandenburg, Ky. Funeral services were held on Sunday, November 13, 1960 at the Brandenburg Methodist Church, and burial was in Captain (Cap) Anderson Cemetery, Brandenburg. Pallbearers were his Masonic friends. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/b/bircher6139gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/