Funeral service for Wilma Rita Bechel, 2001 N. Kingshighway, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Louis Launhardt will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today.
Bechel, 72, died Monday, June 5, 1995, at Fountainbleau Lodge.
She was born Jan. 19, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Albert J. and Ethel E. Rhodes Bechel.
Bechel had worked at F.W. Woolworth Stores, Davis Electric, and International Shoe Co. She was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church.
Survivors include her mother of Cape Girardeau, and a brother, Willard Bechel of Cape Girardeau.
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