Jimmy Dean Beisel

January 7, 1952 – May 17, 1970

Jimmy Dean Beisel, 18, a member of the senior class at Perry high school, died early Sunday of head injuries received in a one-automobile accident at 12:20 a.m. Sunday 7.6 miles east of Pawnee on U.S. highway 64.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the First Christian church of Perry. Burial will be in Mount Carmel cemetery, seven miles north and three west of Perry, under the direction of Anderson funeral home of Garber. Officiating will be Rev. James Lambed, pastor of the First Christian church.

Born Jan. 7, 1952, in Perry, Beisel had attended school at Oakdale Center before coming to Perry. He had been a member of the Perry chapter of the Future Farmers of America and had served as secretary of his freshman class FFA group.

Automobile mechanics was his hobby and he had hoped to make that field his future work.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beisel, northwest of Perry; two brothers, Cecil and Harry, both of Perry; and one sister, Mrs. Frances Roesler, of Hominy.