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Charles Christian Bechtel

(05/02/1879 - 10/18/1931)

branch.gif (1966 bytes)George W Bechtel
Charles Christian Bechtel
Marriage(s)Lillie Lavina Frankenfield
 1 Mamie Geiss on:
   Children:
  - Clemment Bechtel
  - Telford Frank Bechtel
  - Homer Bechtel
 
 2 Ethel M Witmer on: 10/24/1926
  - No Issue
 
  Siblings:
  - Female Bechtel
  - Elmer Bechtel
  - Lizzie Bechtel
  - George Harold Bechtel
  - Dorothy G Bechtel
  - Rodney Bechtel
 
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The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., October 19, 1931,
Chas. C. Bechtel, Mickley?s Hotel Proprietor, Dies

Charles C. Bechtel, proprietor of the Mickley?s Hotel and one of Lehigh co unty?s best known hotelmen, died at 11:45 o?clock yesterday morning at t he Sacred Heart hospital from pneumonia after an illness of ten days. He w as 51 years. A native of this city few men in the community enjoyed su ch a wide acquaintanceship as did Charley Bechtel. The son of Lillie L. (n ee Frankenfield) and the late George W. Bechtel, he was educated in the Al lentown schools and later was graduated from Blackman?s Business college.

In the late nineties when still in his teens he went to New York to ta ke a secretarial position with the commercial house of Alden, Sampson a nd company. He remained in New York for several years when he return ed to Allentown and entered the upholstering business. Later he became ass ociated with the Hamilton hotel as a bartender and this was the beginni ng of his career as a hotelman.

Subsequently he became proprietor of the Brighton hotel and later became a ttached to the staff of the Hotel Allen where he and Jesse Gray held for th in the buffet-salon which then located in what is now the barber sh op of the hotel. Mr. Bechtel, when Oscar Tallman opened his men?s grill ju st below the Lehigh Valley Trust company, Charley Bechtel became head of b artenders in that popular establishment. For some years he was at Gross? C af?, Sixth and Hamilton street. Mr. Bechtel and Mr. Gray took over the Win dsor Hotel after the death of Joseph F. Gehringer. They conducted this bus iness as the Graybeck hotel until the building was purchased by Charles Kl ine, whose department store is now located on the site at Lumber and Hamil ton streets. About ten years ago Mr. Bechtel became proprietor of the Mick leys Hotel and he conducted this business with unusual success up until t he time of his fatal illness.

Mr. Bechtel was an ardent fisherman and enthusiastic huntsman. He was al so intensely interested in amateur theatricals and for years appeared wi th the Eagles minstrels, the Clover club frolics and the Veteran Showman ?s Minstrels, outstanding local attractions in their day.

Mr. Bechtel is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lillie Bechtel; three sons bo rn to his first wife, Homer and Telford, of Philadelphia; Clement, of th is city; his wife, the former Miss Ethel Witmer, of this city; two brother s, G. Harold and Rodney E., and two sisters, Dorothy G. Bechtel and Mrs. E lizabeth A. Steinmetz, all of this city.

He was a member of Jordan lodge, F. and A. M.; Lehigh Consistory, Rajah Te mple, the Shrine club, the Tall Cedars, the Clover club, Owls, Moose, Eagl es, Good Will Fire company and the Fireman?s Relief association. He w as a member of the Reformed wing of Mickleys church.

The funeral will be held from his late home at the Mickleys Hotel on Wedne sday afternoon at two o?clock. Services will be conducted at the house wi th interment in the Mickleys cemetery.
 
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