Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

 

Bernard Jay Bickel

Mar. 28, 1902 – Nov. 23, 1985

 

South Bend Tribune 11/24/1985

Bernard J. Bickel

Bernard J. Bickel, 83, of 1007 N. Sherman Ave., died at 10:27 a.m. Saturday at Michiana Community Hospital after an illness.  He was a retired County Building Commissioner of St. Joseph County.  Born on March 28, 1902, in Mishawaka, he was a lifetime resident of this area.  On Sept. 6, 1928, in Chicago, he married Margaret A. Monthi, who survives with a sister, Alice Dygulski of Mishawaka; and two brothers, William J. Bickel of Niles, Mich. and Louis A. Bickel of Elkhart.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William St.  Burial will be at Highland Cemetery.  Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.  Mr. Bickel was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church.  A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.