John William Beicher ^{2 3 4 5 6}

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1950 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, MI. ⁸ The 1950 census recorded at 54 N. 27th Street: John I. Beicher, 35, regional supervisor of truck tractor factory, living with wife Lois M., 31; son John W., 8; and daughter Sue A., 4. Also with them is nephew Jack C. Campbell, 17. Everyone was born in Ohio.

2. Residence: on 5 Sep 1957 in Menlo Park, San Mateo, CA. ³

3. Newspaper: The Times: CSM Votes Officers, 8 Oct 1960, San Mateo, San Mateo, CA. ⁹ In a general election this week, College of San Mateo voters filled vacancies in student goverment offices for the fall semester. Completing judicial council for the fall semester will be John Beicher of Menlo Park and Pat Wasko of Irvington.

4. Newspaper: The Times: CSM Faculty Beats Sophs, 27 May 1961, San Mateo, San Mateo, CA. ¹⁰ Faculty baseball players at College of San Mateo are improving with age. Beaten last year by the graduating sophomores, the faculty men showed improved hitting and fielding yesterday and defeated the sophs, 3-2, in a seven-inning game at Coyote Point.
The game was part of the annual frosh-soph day activities held at the close of the regular school day, Coaches Cliff Griffin and Ralph Barkey did the pitching for the faculty. In the late innings of the game the sophs loaded their team with the college baseball nine but still proved unable to overcome the lead built up the by instructions in the early innings.
Meanwhile the soph men and women out-pulled the frosh class in the tug of war contest and took all three first places in the pie-eating contest. First place winners for the sophs, in order, were Steve Sledge, John Beicher, and Phil Amos.

5. Newspaper: The Times: John Beicher - Pearl River Flood, 13 Apr 1983, Shreveport, Caddo, LA. ¹¹ PHOTO CAPTION: A volunteer worker takes a nap on bales of unused sandbags distributed to residents of Slidell for use to protect their homes against loodwaters along the Pearl River. Waters were receding Tuesday giving weary residents a chance to breathe easy and begin cleanup operations.
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Headline: Some win sandbag battle
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A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into useless labor in nearby subdivisions as homeowners scrambled to keep a flood at bay with sandbag dikes around the house. "If it wasn't done right, it wasn't worth a flip," John Beicher said Tuesday. He was out in the bright sun raking up trash left by the high water line across his lawn.
His house was above the flood. For blocks around other houses flooded, or stayed dry behind dikes, when the muddy water of the Pearl River reached its record high level in 10 subdivisions outside of Slidell and began to subside. Water was receding slowly Tuesday, leaving winners and losers among the hundreds of homes ringed by sandbag levees. In Magnolia Forest, an enclave of homes worth $100,000 andv up, Tony DiFatta was a happy winner. He and his wife, Susan, rested atop their low sandbag levee.
A triumphant sign, painted on a board, stuck up out of a sandpile. It said, "God's Miracle." The DiFatta's laid their sandbags and plastic sheeting right Susan saw to that. She telephoned friends who had been through three floods and "asked for the sandbag engineer." Another winner was Charlie Morrison, tidying up behind his 3Vi-foot high levee while the water still stood in the Cross Gate subdivision. After three floods, he knows how. Now he is wondering whether to tear it down or wait awhile.
It looks like a wet spring. Morrison's 11-year-old son, David, had a wisecrack about it. "We thought we'd just sod it and grow grass," he said, grinning. People who sweated through Pearl River flooding in recent years have developed sandbagging into an art. Done wrong, it leaks like a sieve.
With a proper dike, carefully sheeted, braced with two by fours, plus a couple of pumps to get rid of seepwater, you can have the yellow Pearl standing four or five feet deep around your home while it remains dry within. There are a lot of tricks to it. have to go into your sewer and put a valve in it so it won't back flush into the house," said Beicher. "The house over here, they had a five-foot wall around it but they had so much coming in they had to have a pump in each bathtub to deal with stuff coming up," he added. "They survived in five feet.
That's an incredible amount of water." "What we are thinking of doing is writing a simple guide on how to do this. There are a lot of litle things. And the last thing you do is tell the neighbors if my house goes in, somebody turn off the electricity." The great sandbagging scramble started early last week when weather forecasters warned that big water was on its way. About 300,000 bags of new-fangled plastic or old-fashioned jute were supplied by St. Tammany Parish Civil Defense, which handled disaster work.
Relays of dump trucks piled up small mountains of sand at central points. Volunteers shoveled the bags full and homeowners hauled them away. Those who knew how succeeded. Like an old song says, it ain't what you do, it the way what you do it.

6. Newspaper: Times-Picayune: John Beicher, 24 Apr 1983, New Orleans, Orleans, LA. ¹² For those caught up in the recent West Pearl River flooding east of Slidell, boquets or brickbats go to the following: Boquets: To John Beicher and Walt Harrison, who used a flatboat and a pirogue to deliver Sunday newspapers to Cross Gates residents who stayed in their flooded homes. (The papers were The Times-Picayune, by the way.).

7. Newspaper: Times-Picayune: Real Estate Transfers. Cross Gates subdivision, lot 154, phase 1. John W. Beicher and others to Howard A. Skinner and others, $112,250., 12 Dec 1987, New Orleans, Orleans, LA. ¹³

8. Residence: 300 E Pearl Dr, Slidell, LA, 70461-1514 in 1993 in Slidell, St. Tammany, LA. ⁷

9. Occupation: Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin at John C. Stennis Space Center in 2000 in Gainesville, Hancock, MS. ¹⁴

10. Newspaper: Times-Picayune: Model T's, Rolls Royces roll across the South, 24 Apr 2005, New Orleans, Orleans, LA. ¹⁵ Photo Caption: Model T Ford Club of America members with the vintage automobiles, such as the ones shown here, recently toured the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Slidell's John Beicher and Larry Jurrich were among the group.

Local vintage car enthusiasts got together for two separate tours of the Southeast last week.
Slidell's John Beicher and Larry Jurrich took part in the Model T Ford Club of America's event that was staged by the Ocean Springs, Miss., chapter of the organization. About 85 people participated in the Model T tour that led owners along the backroads of Mississippi and Alabama.
While the antique Fords were being driven along the Gulf Coast, Slidell's Bill Borchert participated in the Rolls Royce Owners Club's tour that began in New Orleans and ended in Jackson, Miss. The Rolls club ventured along the scenic bayous of Louisiana and eventually made the trip north into the Mississippi Delta. Seventy-seven people and 31 automobiles joined in the fun.
Both groups certainly had heads turning.
Beicher, who owns a 1922 Model T roadster, said cars were trailered to the Gulf Coast from spots as far away as Maine, California and even Canada. Each driver was given a tour booklet and various points of interest where the could stop. Beicher said those spots included Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile, Ala., and NASAs Stennis Space Center near the Mississippi-Louisiana border. The Model T's averaged about 400 miles of driving during the tour.
"And there wasn't a car there that didn't have an original engine," Beicher said.
Borchert drove his 1960 Phantom Five limousine on the Rolls Royce tour. Like the Model T owners, the Rolls Royces came from various spots across the U.S. including Missouri, California, Michigan, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee. All but two of the cars were driven to New Orleans.
After an opening dinner at the Palace Cafe on Canal Street, the Rolls club toured the National D-Day Museum and Jean Lafitte State Park. Eight police motorcycles escorted the 31 cars down Jackson Avenue to the ferry where the cars were carried to the West Bank. Owners drove up River Road to Nottoway Plantation and The Myrtles before they stopped in Baton Rouge for a tour of the Governor's Mansion.
In following days, owners made their way to Natchez, Miss., where they visited an antique block party, toured the Natchez Trace, stopped at a casino and a Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, Miss., and visited a film museum in Canton, Miss. The trip ended with dinner in Jackson.
Borchert, who toured with his wife, Laura, coordinated the national Rolls Royce event. He began planning an itinerary last August.
"It was a bunch of work to plan the tour, but (the tour) was really fun," he said.

John married Patricia Irene Eddishaw, daughter of Robert Mitchell Eddishaw and Elizabeth Stockton Erwin, on 3 Jul 1980 in , Jefferson, KY.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Patricia Irene Eddishaw was born on 2 Nov 1942 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ^{1 16 17}.)

John next married Laura Lynne Armstrong, daughter of Joseph Francis Armstrong and Patricia Christoph. (Laura Lynne Armstrong was born on 8 Jun 1956 in Galveston, Galveston, TX ^{18 19}.)