Condolence: As with everyone in the PSFS family, I am very sorry to hear about Charlie. He was a kind man who made everybody smile. I am the person who wrote the book on the history of the bank and Charlie was good enough to give me time at each of the last several dinners to update the attendees on the status of the book and to promote the book on its completion.
Of course I appreciated all of the time and effort that it took Charlie to arrange the annual gatherings, which so many looked forward to attending.
I'm sorry I could not attend the service but my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Bruce Sauerwine

Condolence: To Charlie's family: We had many great years at PSFS with Charlie. Always smiling and always cheerful. Will miss his joking ways.

Condolence: to charlie's beautiful family. your father ( as you know) was a VERY special person. dry sense of humor & always quick with a joke. a gentle man who was alway kind to everyone one. he touched so many lives in a positive ways. a kind word, a smile, a gleam in his eye or a funny little story. always had time to listen. he was a character in the BEST sense of the word. he will be sadly missed by all who knew him. we worked at PSFS together off & on for 30 plus years & what fun he made it. rest in peace my dear friend!!!!

Condolence: So sorry to hear of your father's passing. He was so loved and admired by his friends and coworkers at PSFS.
My deepest condolences and prayers to the Bechel family. Charlie will be sorely missed.

Condolence: To the Bechtel family, I was deeply saddened to learn of your father’s death. I feel privileged to have worked with Charlie at PSFS in Business Banking, I believe it was called, back in the early 80’s. He was so very charming and funny. I loved his dead-pan jokes that he would often tell with a twinkle in his eye. I looked forward to seeing him every year that I could make it, at the PSFS reunions. There's a picture of me, your dad and Mary Redheffer posted on this web-site from one of the reunions that I just love. Your dad would call me every year to remind me that the reunion was approaching and hoped that I could make it. Charlie’s passing is a sad loss for you as well as many others of the former PSFS community who loved, respected and treasured him. Charlie will always remain alive in my and other’s memories. He was very special.
With love and deepest sympathy,
Kathy Weber Pike

Condolence: So sorry to hear of Charlies passing. I was fortunate to have worked with him at PSFS. He was always the life of workplace. Sending prayers for your whole family.

Condolence: To the Bechtel family with my deepest sympathy,
It's been many years- but I can still remember playing my first football game with you and your dad in the back yard on Dick Avenue.
Tanya (Voss) Sucic

Condolence: Heartfelt sympathy is extended to the Bechtel Family with the loss of Charlie, a true gentleman, friend and former co-worker at PSFS. He was and will be forever remembered for his kindness and concern for others. Always a smile, always a helping hand as he worked diligently to plan and set up the Mutually Ours Dinners for PSFS retirees. May God Bless and Keep each of you as you keep alive the memory of a truly wonderful man, Charles A. Bechtel.

Myrlene McGorder Washington

Condolence: To the Bechtel family: I had the great pleasure of working with Charlie at PSFS for many years. Charlie always had or found a way to bring a smile to your face while looking you straight in the eye. He also found ways to make work fun as he worked just a hard right beside you with a gleeful smile and often with a twinkle in his eye. Many too will mess Charlie and his authentic outreach to everyone he met.
With my sincere condolences,
Charles Dotger

Condolence: Charles was a true gentleman with an incredible sense of humor. He was the person I would seek out to talk to at every meeting. We should honor him for his tireless work on behlalf of mental illness and for the special person he was. May his memory be eternal.
With sympathy.
Jim