Photo collection of Jeanne & Bob Bethel

highlights of the photo collection
of bob & jeanne bethel

Family members include, in no particular order, Willis Robert Bethel; Paul William Bethel; Harry Bethel, Gordon Samuel Bethel, his first wife Gertrude Ray Bethel and his second wife Minnie Fairbanks Bethel, Genevieve Margaret Bethel and her husband Everett Minchow, Lillian Godfrey Bethel, Nellie Schultz Bethel, Nola Jen Bethel, Everett Wayne Minchow, Janet Maxine Minchow Lueders, Betty Jo Bethel Olson, Robert George Bethel, Dona Jean Bethel Wieden.

robert bethel

Robert Bethel, born in 1863, died in a bizarre accident at the age of 46. He was driving a wagon across a country bridge when it collapsed.

Photo 3106

Photo 3105, a pen and ink drawing of Robert Bethel

wife of robert bethel, florence goodell bethel

The maiden name of Robert's wife Florence was Goodell.

Photo 3119

Photo 3125, Florence and her children. Back, Harry, Paul William, and Florence. Front: Gordon, Genevieve, and Willis

Photo 3127, Robert & Florence's chjildren: Harry, Genevieve, Paul William, Willis, and Gordon

Photo 3110, Florence and her son Gordon, no date

Photo 3111, Florence and her son Gordon, circa 1939.

Photo 3109. Florence's family in June 1940: Back row: Willis, Paul William, Everett Minchow (Genevieve's husband), Harry, and Gordon. Middle row: Lillian Godfrey Bethel, Genevieve Bethel Minchow, Nellie Schultz-Bethel, and Gertrude Ray Bethel. Front row, the kids: Nola Jean Bethel, Everett Wayne Minchow, Janet Maxine Minchow Lueders, Betty Jo Bethel Olson, Robert George Bethel, and Dona Jean Bethel Wieden.

son of robert & florence, gordon bethel

Photo 3107, Gordon Bethel, Mary Mertes and her husband Frank at a Nemaha River bridge north of Table Rock

Photo 3115, Gordon, undated

Photo 3114, Gordon Bethel and Alice Covault, before Gordon married Gertrude.

Photo 3133, Gordon

Photo 3128, Gertrude Ray Bethel

Gordon and wife Gertrude and their children, Dona, Betty Jo, and Bob

Photo 3122, Gordon & Gertrude's children: Dona, Betty Jo, and Bob

Photo 3131, Gordon & wife Minnie Fairbanks Strohm Bethel, with Gordon's grandchildren Kathy and Robert

Photo 3130, Gordon Bethel with granddaughter Kathy Bethel, step-granddaughter Robbyn Gold, and grandson Robert Bethel, 1956.

daughter of robert & florence, genevieve bethel minchow

Genevieve and her husband, Everett Victor Minchow, on July 20, 1929.

Genevieve and Everett on vacation in Idaho in 1957

robert's siblings

robert's brother & wife: samuel & rosa stohr bethel

They were married on January 1, 1895, at the home of her parents in Pawnee City.

rosa's parents

Rosa's father France Stohr (went by Frances). Photo 3139.

Photo 3138, Rosa's mother, Mary Joseph Mueller Storh

Photo 3141, Samuel Bethel with his favorite breed of horse, a Suffolk-Punch

Photo 3133

Photo 3133b

robert's sister jennie bethel

Photo 13135, Jenny Bethel, married name unknown

Photo 3136, Jenny and her three daughters. All three were blind: Minnie, Margaret, and Adelaide.

robert's sister charlotte

When Robert was killed in 1910, it was Charlotte who gave the information for the death certificate.

Photo 3134, Charlotte Bethel Arnold on the warship New Mexico in Santa Barbara Harbor in 1925. It is believed that she was married to a Mr. Arnold of Wymore, Nebraska.