Notes for: Roland Rutherford Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1930, recorded as Roland Badine, he lived in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas where he worked as a laborer at odd jobs and in 1940 lived in Los Angeles, California working as a night watchman. Roland Bodine became a Baptist preacher and as reported in the Casa Grande (Az.) Dispatch of 14 March 1957 has conducted a non-denominational mission at Bapchule for the past 11 years in Bapshule, Pinal County, Arizona, with the Pima Indians. In Nov 1961, the Greeley "Daily Tribune" reported that Mrs. Roland Bodine was a missionary among the Pima Indians in Bapshule. Lois (Brust) Bodine was the daughter of Tofel and Marguerite Brust.
Obituary, Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Ariz.) of Wednesday, 19 Aug 1964.
AJO--Services for the Rev. Roland R. Bodine, 63, a Baptist missionary who died Sunday in Ajo Hospital, will be held at 5 p.m. today in the First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Ajo Cemetery. An Arizona missionary for the past 20 years, Mr. Bodine moved to Ajo in February and served at Hickiwan Papago Indian village near Casa Grande.
Eloise Bernice Bodine married 2ndly Cecil Morris Hegler 1908-1988.
AJO (AZ) Copper News of 11 Nov 1971
After 25 years working as a missionary to the Indians of Arizona, Mrs. Bernice Bodine Hegler has retired.
From Social Security Records:
Lois B. Hegler, born 20 Nov 1909, died 13 May 1999, last residence was Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona.
The Arizona Death Certificate for Lois Bernice Bodine Hegler shows she was born 20 Nov 1909 in Oakwood, Oklahoma to Toethel Theodore and Margaret Augusta (Newfeldt) Brust; died 13 May 1999 in Show Low, Navajo County; buried n Show Low Cemetery. Informant was Othel David Bodine, son.
Burials in Show Low Cemetery, Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave memorial No. 37702243)
Beloved Mother Bernice Bodine Hegler 1909--1999