Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....WINCHEL, Beulah Rhea December 25, 2015 ************************************************ 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 10, 2019, 7:32 pm Kentucky Newspaper Unknown, December 2015 or January 2016 Found her obituary on Find-A-Grave.com, a database on Ancestry.com Beulah Rhea WINCHEL, age 103 years, formerly of Hardinsburg, Ky, died on Friday, December 25, 2015 at her residence in Bowling Green, Ky., (Warren County). She was born in Franks, Ky in Breckinridge County on January 8, 1912, a daughter of the late William and Orpha Pearl KIPER WINCHEL. Beulah received her teaching degree at Western Kentucky University, her Masters of Library Sciences from Peabody College, and was a member of the Breckinridge County Retired Teachers Association. Her teaching career spanned many decades, schools, and continents beginning at a one-room school in Axtel, Ky which is in southern Breckinridge County. After retirement, she returned to Hardinsburg as a librarian in the Breckinridge County School System. She also taught in several schools in Louisville, Ky. As a member of the Army Civilian Special Services, she served as Education Specialist and Lirarian in Kyoto, Japan; Karlshule & Frankfort, Germany; Orleans, France, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She is survived by: her half-sister: Joyce (Bob) VERSTRAETE of Shawnee, Kansas (Johnson County) four nieces In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Ralston Gene WINCHEL, the father of her four nieces. Funeral services will be held at Trent-Dowell Funeral Home in Hardinsburg, on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. CST, with burial in the McDaniels Cemetery. Additional Comments: Beulah Rhea Winchel has a tombstone and is buried at: #0065 Calvert Community Church Cemetery, located east of Hornback Mill Road, approximately 1.6 miles southeast of its junction with KY 737, within sight of the Ben Johnson School on KY 259, near McDaniels in Breckinridge County, Ky. WINCHEL, Beulah Rhea 08 Jan 1912 -- 25 Dec 2015 never married daughter of William Harrison WINCHEL & Orpha Pearl KIPER have her obituary has a tombstone HER BROTHER AND HIS SON ALSO HERE: WINCHEL, Gene Ralston 27 Sep 1928 -- 18 Mch 1994 husband of Katie RITTER son of William Harrison WINCHEL & Orpha Pearl KIPER Social Security Deaths Index has a tombstone WINCHEL, Thomas Harrison 12 Jan 1956 -- 29 Aug 1956 (death certificate has born January 4, 1956) son of Gene Ralston WINCHEL & Katie RITTER have his death certificate had a funeral home metal marker on his grave when the cemetery tombstones were copied. PARENTS OF BEULAH AND GENE ALSO BURIED HERE: WINCHEL, William Harrison 27 Mch 1888 -- 12 Jan 1949 husband of Orpha Pearl KIPER son of Uriah Filmore WINCHEL & Ellen Josephine BRUCE have his death certificate has a tombstone WINCHEL, Orpha Pearl 03 Nov 1886 -- 27 Jun 1931 wife of William Harrison WINCHEL daughter of Bates KIPER & Cora CRAIG have her death certificate has a tombstone Peggy Russell File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/w/winchel10677gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/