Submitted by: Dan Rich
Robert C. Bickel
Aug. 30, 1906 – April 20, 1986
South Bend Tribune 4/21/1986
Robert C. Bickel
Robert C. Bickel, 79, of 302 E. Borley Ave.,
died at 8:57 p.m. Saturday in St. Joseph Hospital after an
illness. He had retired in 1971 from Dodge Manufacturing
Corp. after 32 years of service. Born Aug. 30, 1906, in
Mishawaka, he lived in this area all of his life. In
January 1959, Mr. Bickel married the former Ruth A. Sones,
who died Nov. 21, 1972. Survivors include a daughter,
Winifred Avery of Mishawaka; two step-sons, Preston Holmes and
Wallace Holmes, both of Mishawaka; four grandchildren;
eight great-grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy F. Bickel and
Gladys I. Havens, both of Mishawaka; and a brother, Donald
P. Bickel of Mishawaka.
Services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Bubb
Funeral Home. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Friends
may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home.
Mr. Bickel was a member of the First Christian Church in
Mishawaka. An Army veteran of World War II, he was a member
of American Legion Post 161 in Mishawaka.