John G. Bechtel ’20

JOHN G. BECHTEL, 93, died Oct. 6, 1991, at Brandywine Hundred. He was born in the Northern Delaware area known as Carpenter Station, in Claymont. Graduating from the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School, he practiced law for 20 years in Philadelphia, and then became a self employed real estate agent, specializing, for 30 years, in country properties in Chester County, Penn.

John served in the Navy during WWI and in army counterintelligence in France during WWII. Once home he joined the Plays and Players of Philadelphia, sang in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and, in 1936, was president of the Savoy Company in Philadelphia,

John is survived by his wife of 27 years, Josephine Plowman Fleming Bechtel; two nephews and nieces who helped care for him, Thomas B. Marshall and John Marshall, the Rev. Mary Marshall Taylor, who officiated at the funeral, and Delia Marshall Pitkin; a stepson Samuel Crazier Fleming; a stepdaughter Ellen Fleming Yeckley; stepgrandchildren; and other nephews and nieces. The Class extends its deep sympathy to them.

The Class of 1920