Notes for: Lester Oliver Bodine
From: Safari40 at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Subject: Re: Colf Genealogy
Hi,
You might want to add this as I did not see it on your site pertaining to the Bodine's:
Amsa Horton Bodine (son of Sylvanus Bodine)
b: 1831 Orange Co., NY
d: ? Burial: Montgomery, NY
his son:
James R. Bodine
b: 1859
his son:
Lester Oliver Bodine (Lester was the father of my Husband)
b: 1908
d: 1947 Burial: Rushville, NY
his son:
William Oliver Bodine
b: 1938 Penn Yan, NY
still living
spouse:
Sheila Rae (Colf) Bodine
son:
Merrill Lester Bodine
b: 1940 Penn Yan, NY
still living
...
Sheila R. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Penn Yan (NY) Democrat of Friday, 17 April 1936.
Married at Bellona by Rev. M. E. Bartholomew Friday evening, Apr. 10, Miss Gladys Lathrop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lathrop, of Potter, and Lester Bodine, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bodine, of Italy.
Obituary, Geneva Daily Times (Geneva, N.Y.) of 25 Jan 1947.
Penn Yen, Jan. 25--The body of Lester Bodine, 37-year-old town of Italy truckman, was found in Shaw Road, about a mile from his home, yesterday at 3:45 p.m. with a shotgun wound through his heart. Discovery of the body was made by William Martin, 16, of Naples, who at the time was on the school bus enroute home. Looking out of a window, Martin saw Bodine's car parked along the main highway and the body lying about 50 feet away. Martin left the bus, picked up a friend, LeRoy Herrick, 18, and the two of them went to a neighbor's home where they notified Sheriff Jay Pitzwater and Deputies Elmer Parshall and Ralph Legg. They with Dr. Robert P. Lewis, coroner's physician, drove to the scene and investigated. The body was removed to the Thayer funeral home. HAD BEEN DESPONDENT. According to relatives Bodine had been despondent and brooding for some time due to financial difficulties involving his trucking business. Coroner E. C. Poster, signed a death certificate today giving the cause of death as "suicide by shooting while temporarily insane." Bodine used a 12 gauge double barrel hammerless shotgun, the shot penetrating his heart. PLAYED WITH SONS. Bodine's wife, Gladys Lathrop Bodine, employed at the Comstock Canning Co. at Rushvllle, was not at home at the time of the death. Bodine drove her to work in the morning, returned with the car and according to his mother-in-law, Mrs. May Lathrop, who was at the home, spent the greater portion of the day playing with his two small sons William, 8, and Merrill, 6. The boys were at home due to whooping cough. Mrs. Lathrop told the sheriffs deputies that Bodine had the shotgun in the morning before taking his wife to work and that, at her request, he had put it away. At 3:15 p. m. he had told her he had to go to Middlesex on business and drove away from the house. Beside his wife and two sons, Bodine leaves his father, James of Penn Yan; a sister, Mrs . Jennie Holtby, Elmira, and four brothers, Irwin of Himrods, Walter of Naples, Melvin of Trumansburg and Amasa of Mecklenburg. Bodine was born July 4, 1909. The body had been removed to the Hobart Funeral Home, Rushville, awaiting funeral arrangements.
Gladys Lathrop Bodine, daughter of William Richard and Eva Mae (French) Lathrop, married 2ndly, Orrin Smith on 28 Dec 1950 in Italy Valley, New York.
Obituary, Finger Lake (N.Y.) Times of Thursday, 30 Aug 1979.
NAPLES---Mrs. Gladys May Smith, 61, of RD 2, died Wednesday at Soldiers and Sailors Hospital, Penn Yan. Friends may call Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Weldon Funeral Home. The funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. The Rev. Harold Eaton and the Rev. Russell Scheel will officiate. Burial will be in Rushville Cemetery. Mrs. Smith lived in Italy Valley most of her life. She was head of housekeeping at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital for 11 years, retiring in 1977. She was a member of United Methodist Church In Italy Valley, and a member of the Penn Yan Moose Club. Surviving are her husband, Orrian; four sons, William Bodine of Naples, Merrill Bodine of Michigan, Arno Smith of Naples, and Gerald Smith of Honeoye; six grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.