Notes for: Hazel Lippincott Bodine
From: Rashawna Dukes [rashawna.dukes at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023
Subject: Alice J Bodine
I am the granddaughter of Alice Jean Bodine Craig. The information you have listed for her mother and father is incorrect. Her biological father is Walter Nathaniel Miller born 12/12/1908 in Racine, Newton,Missouri and her mother is Hazel Lippincott Bodine born 1/27/1890 in Camden, New Jersey. My grandmother was born in Galena, Kansas 4/22/1928. She has a biological sister Mary Miller born in 1931. I believe I saw the information you have written about her and you do have the correct biological parents listed for Mary. They were adopted by their uncle after the passing of Hazel. I am in the process of doing some ancestry on my family and came across this site. Thank you for what you do it's all very interesting.
From Ronny Bodine (Apr. 23, 2023):
Hazel Bodine graduated from Bucknell College (now Bucknell University), in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Hazel Bodine, age 29 and single, was living April 1930 with her parents in Philadelphia. She was engaged as a school teacher. The obituary of her father, in The Philadelphia Inquirer of 15 June 1932 refers to her as Mrs. Walter M. Miller, Willow Grove [in Montgomery County, Penn.]
Children: Alice Jean (1928) and Mary Esther (1931). Both were adopted by Hazel's brother Harry Evans Bodine Jr. and his wife Anne.
From Social Security Records:
Alice Jean Bodine applied for a SSN in Nov 1942 and reported she was born 22 April 1928 in Galena, Kansas to Walter Miller & Hazel L. Bodine. In Dec 1975 she reported her name as Alice Jean Craig. She died 29 Jan 2006.
Obituary, The Morning Post (Camden, NJ) of Friday, 19 July 1940.
Woodstone, July 18.---Mrs. Hazel B. Miller, Aura school teacher and former local resident, died in Cooper Hospital yesterday following a stoke a week ago. With two daughters, Alice and Mary, she made her home at 280 West Clayton avenue, Clayton. A sister, Mrs. Helen Newcomb, of Gettysburg, and a brother, Harry E. Bodine, of Dallas, Texas, survive. Funeral services will be held at a funeral home at Main and Green streets at 10 a.m. Saturday, with burial at Roslyn, Pa.
WALTER NATHANIEL MILLER.
On 1 Jan 1937, Walter with his 2 daughters Alice and Mary are registered as members of the Peoria tribe, under the jurisdiction of Osage Agency, Oklahoma. There is no spouse listed. Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
On 16 Oct 1940 in Wichita, Kansas, Walter Nathaniel Miller registered for the World War II Draft. He reported he was born 12 Dec 1908 in Racine, Missouri, was self-employed, and named his father Albert Miller as next of kin.
In 1950, he lived in Miami, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma with his 2nd wife, Beulah.
From Oklahoma Death Records:
Walter Miller died 26 June 1962 in Tulsa, Tulsa County.
Obituary, The Tulsa (OK) Tribune of 26 June 1962.
Walter N. Miller, 53, a former gospel singer, died of an apparent heart attack today in his home at 708 S. Denver Ave. Mr. Miller had sung bass with quartets in churches, singing conventions and over radio stations in Northeast Oklahoma and adjacent area for many years. He came to Tulsa from Baxter Springs, Kan., two years ago. Born in Rcine, Mo., he was a son of the late Albert Miller, a Peoria Indian evangelist, and began his singing career at evangelistic meetings conducted by his father. Mr. Miller attended Chilocco Indian School and Bacone College. he played catcher on semi-professional baseball teams as a young man before losing his left leg in a lead and zinc mine cave-in near Picher. He later wore an artificial leg. Mr. Miller was chief of police and deputy sheriff at Pineville, Mo., from 1946-48. He was a member of the Indian Baptist Church here. Surviving are a son, Ted, and a stepdaughter, Miss Donelda Trimble, both of the home. The Fitzgerald Funeral Home sent the body to the Kenneth Schurman Funeral Home of Baxter Springs.