Marcus Keith Beher ^{3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10}

   FamilySearch ID: 9N4P-125.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Newspaper: Tipton Daily Tribune: Keith Beher of Indianapolis is spending the week with his grandmother, Mrs. Laura Jones., 9 Jul 1923, Tipton, Tipton, IN. ¹¹

2. Newspaper: South Bend Tribune: Keith Beher, Tribune Carrier, Seriously Injured in Accident, 13 Nov 1927, South Bend, St. Joseph, IN. ¹²
Tragedy stalked across the path of Keith Beher, orphan youth and Tribune newsboy, when he left the home of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Stauffer, with whom he resides at 1024 Sherman avenue, early Saturday afternoon on his happy carefree way to The Tribune office, for he had barely left the Stauffer residence when his bicycle was run down by a passing automobile and Keith was thrown to the pavement, sustaining three skull fractures from which it is feared he will not recover. Keith attends the Muessel school, where he is either in the sixth or seventh grade. In addition to his duties as a Tribune carrier, he has also found time to be a Boy Scout, being a member of troop 14. At the time of the accident he was intending to pay his weekly account after which he was to deliver his Saturday afternoon papers. This morning the injured youth lies in a coma in Epworth hospital. On Friday he was one of the happiest boys in the city for on that day he celebrated his 14th birthday and received the congratulations of his friends, not to mention numerous gifts highly cherished. To-day his fellow newsboys are hoping for his recovery for Keith is one of the most popular of the small army of youths who dally deliver The Tribune to thousands of South Bend homes. The driver of the automobile with which Keith collided is David Mulcahy, age 27, of 714 Lindsey street, who was proceeding north, on Sherman avenue. As he passed the Stauffer residence the boy on the bicycle suddenly rode out from a driveway directly into the path of the car. So terrific was the crash that windshield of Mr Mulcahy's machine was smashed but Mr. Mulcahy was uninjured. When the boy was picked up there were several deep gashes in his head. He! was taken to the hospital where surgeons performed an emergency operation in the hope that his life may be saved. Keith has been a Tribune carrier about three months during which time he has made many friends for himself among the customers along his route. It was his custom to be punctual in delivering his papers and every afternoon exactly at the required hour he could be found at Portage and California avenues, one of the outlying points where bundles of papers are distributed to carriers.

3. Newspaper: South Bend Tribune: Keith Beher Is Recovering, 28 Nov 1927, South Bend, St. Joseph, IN. ¹³ Keith Beher, age 14, of 1024 Sherman avenue, a Tribune carrier, was reported this morning by Epworth hospital attaches as making satisfactory progress toward recovery from injuries sustained two weeks ago last Saturday when his bicycle and an automobile collided near his home. He is suffering from triple skull fracture.

4. Census in 1930 in South Bend, St. Joseph, IN. ¹⁴ The 1930 census recorded renting at 703 Portage St. Harry R. Stauffer, truck salesman, 36, living with wife Hazel Stauffer, 40, and Hazel's nephew, Keith Beher. His mother was Hazel's sister Bessie who died in 1924. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana.

5. Newspaper: The Call-Leader: Mr. And Mrs. Keith Beher of Springfield, Ohio, Mr. And Mrs. Joe Reed of Greentown called on Mr. And Mrs. Warren Beher and Herman Hannah Sunday evening., 11 Jan 1941, Elwood, Madison, IN. ¹⁵

6. Census in 1950 in Springfield, Clark, OH. ¹⁶ The 1950 census recorded Marcus K. Beher, 36, living with wife Elizabeth L., 36; Marcus J., 7; and Richard K., 1. The parents were born in Indiana and children in Ohio.

7. Residence: 31 Gordon Rd., Springfield, OH on 9 May 1965 in Springfield, Clark, OH. ⁹

8. Obituary: Journal Gazette: obituary of Marcus Keith Beher on 9 Jun 2001 in Fort Wayne, Allen, IN. ⁷ MARCUS KEITH BEHER, 87, of Springfield, Ohio, formerly of LaFontaine, died Thursday at Masonic Home, Springfield. Born in Connersville, he retired as a sheet metal technician at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; two sons, Dr. Marcus James of Wabash and Richard Keith of Phoenix; a daughter, Cheryl Stacey of Springfield; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren. Graveside services at 11 a.m. Monday at Center Grove Cemetery, Lincolnville. No calling. Memorials to Masonic Home, PO Box 120, Springfield, OH 45501. Arrangements by McDonald Funeral Home, LaFontaine.

9. Obituary: Springfield News-Sun: obituary of Marcus Keith beher on 11 Jun 2001 in Springfield Township, Clark, OH. ¹⁰ MARCUS KEITH BEHER 87 of Springfield Ohio died at Masonic Home at 4:15 pm. He was born November 11, 1913 in Connerville, Indiana. The son of Marcus Estel and Bessie (Jones) Beher. He retired from Wright Patterson Air Force Base in 1972 after 32 years as a sheet metal worker. He belonged to the Royal Arch Masons, Four Mile Lodge 212 of Missouri. He also belonged to the Civil Air Patrol for many years. He is survived by his wife of 60 years Elizabeth L (Arnett) Beher. Two sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. James (Dede) Beher of La Fontaine, Indiana, and Richard (Debby) Beher of Phoenix, Arizona; one-daughter and son-in-law Cheryl (Mike) Stacey of Springfield; seven grandchildren, Mare and Kevin Beher, Rachel (Joe) Razzio, Steve (Renee) Stacey and Nicholas Stacey; four great-grandchildren, Candice and Trinity Gatchcl and Brandon and Britany Stacey. He was preceded in death by his parents and an aunt and uncle. Graveside services will be held in Center Grove Cemetery 11 am Monday, June 11, 2001 in Wabash, Indiana. Arranged by MCDONALD FUNERAL HOME in La Fontaine Indiana. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Ohio Masonic Home.

Marcus married Elizabeth Lucille Arnett, daughter of James Sherman Arnett and Mary Rachel Hummer, on 21 Dec 1940 in , Wabash, IN.^{1 2} (Elizabeth Lucille Arnett was born on 29 Nov 1913 in Wabash, Wabash, IN,^{1 2 17} died on 18 Jan 2008 in Springfield, Clark, OH ^{2 6 17} and was buried on 26 Jan 2008 in Lincolnville: Center Grove Cemetery, Wabash, IN ^{2 6 17}.)