BEUCHER, Charles L. --- 1915-1993

COLE, BEUCHER, EGGERS, WADE, EILTS, SONNKALB

Posted By: IA GenWeb Volunteer
Date: 7/24/2012 at 13:29:15

Charles L. Beucher

Charles L. Beucher was born Sept. 13, 1915 in Postville, Iowa, to parents Leo O. and Anna (Cole) Beucher. He died Jan. 6, 1993 at a local Hospice in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 77.

On May 12, 1941 he married Jamaine Eggers in Farmersburg, Iowa. Charles worked at Citizen's State Bank in Postville from 1937-1941, and was an instructor for Army Air Corps during World War II. For the past 30 years he worked as a TWA Airline Pilot, both national and international.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife, who died in 1981, and a son, Terence Beucher, who died in 1984.

Survivors include a son, Charles L. Beucher, Jr. of San Francisco, Calif.; 2 daughters, Jacqueline Wade of Overland Park, Kan., and Patrice Eilts of Westwood, Kan.; a sister, Kay Sonnkalb of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a brother, Alan Beucher of Long Island, N.Y.; and 6 six grandchildren.

Inurnment is set for Postville at a later date.

Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.