Tennessee’s Sparta was where Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel stayed. On the evening of April 3, 2000, Bechtel called his father Ronnie Bechtel and spoke with him. Will, her brother, saw Foster that same evening.
The following evening, Foster and Bechtel went to a party, and they afterwards returned to Foster’s parents’ house. In Foster’s black Pontiac Grand Am, the adolescents were likely last seen at 10:00 p.m. Foster was 18 and Bechtel was 17 at the time of Foster’s disappearance.
Jeremy Bechtel obituary
On December 1, 2021, Jeremy Lee Bechtel, who was 17 years old when he vanished on April 3, 2000, was discovered in Sparta. He was born in Smithville on November 7, 1982. He was the son of the late Rhonda England Bechtel Ledbetter and Ronnie Lee Bechtel. Jeremy enjoyed practicing sports in school and listening to music.
He also lost his mother, as well as Clifford and Betty Bechtel and Paul and Vera England, his paternal grandparents. His parents, Ronnie and Karen Bechtel of McMinnville, his stepfather, Hunter Ledbetter of Sparta, his brothers, Rickey and Dusty Fox of McMinnville, his nieces, Cloe and Lillian Fox, as well as several cousins and other relatives are still alive.
The funeral service and burial will take place at Oak Lawn Funeral Home on January 15, 2022, at 1 p.m. The official will be Dwight Fuqua. On January 15, the family will host a visitation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
The arrangements are in the hands of Oak Lawn Funeral Home.
