Submitted by: Dan Rich

Catherine Barbara Michels

May 8, 1879 – Jan. 28, 1905

The Mishawaka Enterprise 2/3/1905

Catherine Barbara, wife of Wildred Michels, passed away Saturday night at the family residence ob Division Street, aged 26 years. She had been in ill health with consumption for two years and returned about four months ago from Arizona where she had been in hopes of benefiting her health. She was formerly Miss Catherine Bickel. She was born in Mishawaka, May 8, 1879. Four years ago she married Wilfred Michels, who survives with on son, Cletus Michels. She also leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Bickel, and six brothers and sisters, Frank, George, Nicholas, Otto, Joseph and Henry Bickel, Mrs. Edward Miller and Miss Henrietta Bickel, all of Mishawaka.