Submitted by: Dan Rich
Dec. 6, 1847 – Oct. 11, 1931
South Bend Tribune 10/12/1931
Nicholas Bickel
Nicholas Bickel, age 83, died almost
instantly Sunday night at 8 o’clock of a fractured skull
when he fell down the cellar steps at this home, 503 East
Jefferson boulevard. He had been a resident of Mishawaka
for 65 years.
Mr. Bickel was alone at the time of the
accident. His daughter, Mrs. Ralph Howland, found
his body at the foot of the stairway when she returned from a
church bazaar. It is believed that Mr. Bickel became
subject to a heart attack while descending the stairs or mistook
the doorway for one leading outside the house.
He was born Dec, 6, 1847 in Baden, Germany,
and moved to Mishawaka 65 years ago. On Aug, 19, 1872, he
was married to Barbara Raab in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic
church: she died 13 years ago.
Six sons and one daughter survive; they
are Joseph Bickel, city, Henry Bickel, Dowagiac, Mich.; Frank,
George Otto and Nicholas Bickel, all of Marcellus, Mich., and
Mrs. Ralph Howland, Mishawaka. He leaves 35 grandchildren
and 10 great-grandchildren.
The body may be viewed in the residence
until the hour of service, which will be held from St Monica’s
Roman Catholic church Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. Rev.
Anthony Badina will officiate and burial will be made in St.
Joseph’s cemetery. Mr. Bickel was a member of St.
Joseph’s society and the Holy Name society.
South Bend Tribune 10/14/1931
Nicholas Bickel
Funeral services for Nicholas Bickel, age
83, resident of Mishawaka 65 years, who died Sunday night of a
fractured skull received when he fell down the cellar steps at
his home, 505 East Jefferson boulevard, were conducted from St.
Monica’s Roman Catholic church this morning at 9 o’clock.
Rev. Anthony Badina officiated and burial was made in St. Joseph’s
cemetery. Six of his grandchildren served as pallbearers.
A police guard of honor, including Leonard
Huppert, Sergt. Charles Montine, Arthur Wegner, Ralph Bobson,
Zell Spencer and Lester Brower, accompanied the body to the
grave.