Bertha (Mrs. Jerome Sr) Zechiel
Bertha Laura Fechner Birth 15 Apr 1885 South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana Death
14 Oct 1983 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana Burial Masonic Cemetery Culver, Marshall
County, Indiana daughter of Charles Edward "Carl" Fechner and Olga Louise Brose
Mrs. Bertha L. Zechiel
CUlver - Services for Mra. Bertha L. Zebhiel, 98, formerly 203 Lakeshore Dr., who died early
Friday in Miller's Merry Manor, Culver, will be at 4 p.m. SUnday at the Bonine Feneral Home.
Officiating will be Mrs. Marjorie Weeks, Christain Sciene reader.
Burial will be in CUlver Masonic Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home.
She was born Apr 15, 1885 in South Bend and lived in the CUlver area since 1909 coming from
Starke County.
On March 10, 1909 she married Jerome H. Zechiel.
He died in 1951.
She is survived by a daughtet Mrs. Luke (Margaret WHite, of Covington, Ind.; a son Jerome J.
fo CUlver; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
A son, and eight borther ans sisters preceded her in death.
She was a member of the FIrst Church of Christ Scientist Plymouth, where she had served as a
reader, a memberof Emily Jane Culver CHapter Order of Eastern Star, Culver City CLub and the
Stitchery Club
Children
Donald Walter Zechiel 1909–1954
Margaret Zechiel White 1915–2004
Jerome J. Zechiel
21 Nov 1923 Culver, Indiana Death:12 Dec 1996 Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana