Martha J. (LeClere) Bicke 1911-1998

LECLERE, BICKEL, DREXLER, WESTPHAL, STEVENS, BOWDEN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 10/23/2015 at 09:55:58

Martha J. Bickel, 87, died Friday, July 24, 1998, in Anamosa Care Center following a long illness. Services: 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Murdoch Funeral Home, Central City, where friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday. The Rev. Tim Walker will officiate. Burial: Coggon Cemetery.

Surviving are her husband, Robert; her children, Henry and wife Clara of Marion, Marie Westphal and husband Kenneth of Fairbank, Clifford and wife Judy of Anamosa, Leonard of Cedar Rapids, Janet Bickel of Schaumburg, Ill., Donna Bickel of Cedar Rapids, Barbara Stevens and husband Dennis of O'Fallon, Ill., and Larry of Cedar Rapids; three brothers, Otto, John and Verle LeClere, all of Hopkinton; and two sisters, Eunice LeClere of Hopkinton and Myrtilla Bowden of Vinton.

Also surviving are nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Wayne and Robert; seven brothers; and three sisters.

Born on May 7, 1911, near Coggon, to Henry and Margaret Drexler LeClere, she married Robert Bickel on March 25, 1935, in Sycamore, Ill.

Martha was a homemaker.

A memorial fund has been established in Martha's memory.

Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) - Sunday, July 26, 1998