OBIT: Thelma (MILES) BECHTEL, 1954, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by SER Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MRS. THELMA BECHTEL Of 215 East Fourteenth street, Tyrone, died at 10.30 o'clock Saturday morning of a heart attack after an illness of two years. She was born Sept. 28, 1908, in Tyrone, the daughter of Philip K. and Lulu (Woomer) Miles and she was married July 29, 1925, to Fred Bechtel. Surviving are her parents, two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Batcheler of Tyrone and Mrs. Jeannette Yeager of Mapleton, three brothers and one sister, Earl Miles of Western Springs, Ill., Capt. S. W. Miles of Washington, D.C., Mrs. John C. Chamberlain and Philip of Tyrone. She attended the Lutheran church and was a member of the American Legion auxiliary. Friends are being received at the Graham & Getz funeral home, Tyrone. Altoona Mirror, July 12, 1954