OBIT: Fred Leroy BECHTEL, 1934, Hanover, York County, PA

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Fred L. Bechtel 

Fred Leroy Bechtel, 9 Westminster avenue died last evening at 6:30 o’clock at 
the Hanover General hospital where he had been a patient since April 23.  Death 
was due to typhoid fever.  He passed this thirty-second birthday anniversary on 
Thursday.  Mr. Becthel was a son of Henry G. and Mary Brumgard Bechtel, 515 
Frederick street.  Surviving are his parents, his wife, who before her marriage 
was Miss Hilda Feeser, and a daughter Mary, both of whom are suffering from the 
same disease; two brothers, Curving Bechtel, near Littlestown, and Leslie 
Bechtel, at home, and five sisters, Mrs. Cleveland Barnhart, near St. 
Bartholomew’s church; Mrs. Curvin Sholl, Parkville; Mrs. David Hykes, Hampton; 
Mrs. Paul Wentz and Mrs. John Barnhart, West Manheim township.  He was a member 
of Hanover Lodge, No. 227, Loyal Order of Moose.  The funeral will be held 
Tuesday morning from the W. A. Feiser funeral home, Carlisle street.  Services 
will be conducted at 9:30 o’clock with further services in St. Bartholomew’s 
Union church.  The Rev. A. M. Hollinger, pastor of the West Manheim Lutheran 
charge, will officiate.  Burial will be made in St. Bartholomew’s cemetery.

Newspaper Unknown, Handwritten date of May 4, 1934