Obit of Bechthold, Leona M. (b234) - Garfield County, Oklahoma

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Leona M. Bechthold

PERRYTON - Leona M. Bechthold, 86, died Thursday, March 18, 1999. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home 
Chapel with the Rev. Steve Ulrey officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree 
Cemetery.

Mrs. Bechthold was born in Beaver County, Okla., and moved to Perryton in 
1973 from Balko, Okla. She moved to Enid, Okla., in 1994. She was a 
homemaker and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Perryton. 
She attended Bethany Consolidated School west of Balko, Panhandle A&M 
College at Goodwell, Okla., and Northwestern State Teacher's College at 
Alva, Okla. She received her bachelor's degree at West Texas State 
Teacher's College at Canyon. 

She was a teacher, and her first teaching job was in a country school 
north of Texhoma. The next three years were in the Union Consolidated 
School at Gray, Okla., and the last seven years of her career were as a 
classroom teacher at Booker Independent School at Booker. 

Mrs. Bechthold taught children's Sunday school for 25 years, was a 
director of vacation church school for several years, a member of the 
official church board, was in the choir, was the pianist and an adult 
Sunday school teacher. She also was a private piano teacher. 

She was a charter member of Eta Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an 
honor society of women teachers. 

She married Henry Bechthold in 1939 at Booker. He died in 1993. 

Survivors include two brothers, Allen Mays of Enid, and Ivan Mays of 
Austin.

Amarillo Globe News 19 Mar 1999
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