Bechle, John (June 24, 1862-Nov. 13, 1942 –husband of Rosa Schweda [married Oct. 13, 1891 at St. Gregory Catholic Church in St. Nazianz, Town of Eaton –first married by the Justice of the Peace at Clarks Mills, Town of Cato on Sept. 21, 1891] –son of Bartholomew Bechle and Elizabeth Lenzen –born Town of Eaton –farmer –from Sept. 13, 1899 until his death in 1942 owned 25 acres with house in the western part of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 28, Town of Eaton –died from “coronary occlusion –arteriosclerosis”) –buried at St. Gregory Catholic Cemetery in St. Nazianz, Town of Eaton [buried in Section 2, Row 13, Lot 36 –stone] [marriage record Manitowoc 6-110] [death record Manitowoc 35-505]
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JOHN BECHLE (d. 1942)

John Baechle (sic), 80, town of Eaton farmer, died last night at the home of his brother, Anton.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. from the St. Gregory’s Catholic church at St. Nazianz. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
The body is at the Kellenbenz funeral home in St. Nazianz.
Manitowoc Herald Times, November 14, 1942 P. 4
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Funeral services for John Baechle (sic), 80, Eaton farmer who died Friday at the homestead farm, were held this morning at 9:30 o’clock from the St. Gregory’s Catholic church at St. Nazianz. Interment was in the adjoining cemetery. Six sons acted as pallbearers.
Mr. Baechle was born at Eaton in 1862 and in 1891 married Miss Rose Schroeder. They located on the Eaton farm where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Baechle died last April.
Survivors are eight sons, Albert, Edward, Frank, Raymond, Herman, Arnold, of route 1, Kiel, Peter and William, of Sheboygan; three daughters, Mrs. John Darius of Sheboygan, Mrs. Joseph Stodola of Haugen, Wis.; Mrs. Clarence Steinhagen, of Milwaukee; three brothers, Joseph and Max of Elkhart Lake, Anton, on the home farm; and 19 grandchildren.
Manitowoc Herald Times, November 16, 1942 P. 2
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