Submitted by: Dan Rich
Aug. 29, 1895 –Jan. 30, 1960
Michigan City News Dispatch 1/30/1960
Joseph E. Bickel, 64, 212 Hendricks Street, died yesterday at 6:35 p.m. in Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, after an illness of three months.
Funeral services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Carlisle Funeral Home with Rev. Donald C. Ford, pastor of Immanuel Church of Christ officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow afternoon and evening and Monday until the hour of the service.
Mr. Bickel was born Aug. 29, 1895 in Harvey Ill. He was employed for 14 years as a shipping clerk at Interstate Metal Products Company.
His parents, Nicholas and Mary (Marsh) Bickel, both are deceased, as is his first wife Flossie Merbeiter, who died in December, 1928
He married the former Caroline Talmadge Dec.21, 1935 and she survives. Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Donald R. Ford, Long Beach, and Mrs Jack Corbett, this city; three sons James M., William R. and Robert E., all of Michigan City; two stepsons; Jim and Francis Morse, both of Michigan City, and 11 grandchildren, six step-grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Paul Britton, Dorothy Bickel, and Mrs. Robert Havens, all of Mishawaka, and Mrs. Robert Rieffel Sr., Edwardsburg, Mich., and four brothers Charles, Donald, George and Robert, all of Mishawaka.
Mr. Bickel served in the US Army in World War I.