Notes for: John Bodine, Sr.
From Ronny Bodine:
In Jan 1920, John Bodine, age 18, lived with his parents in Kent County, Delaware. In 1930, he lived in Clayton, Kent County with his wife and son, working as a railroad laborer and in 1940 worked as a highway laborer in Kent County. Helen (Poore) Bodine was the daughter of Walter and Lena (Truitt) Poore.
From Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Mo.) of 21 May 1941.
Blackbird, Del., May 21.--The mother of seven children, Mrs. Helen Poore Bodine, 35, was accidentally shot and killed by her 5-year-old son last night while she held another child in her arms. Thomas Lamb, state police sergeant, said the boy pulled the trigger of a shotgun he thought was not loaded. The child in the mother's arms was not wounded, Lamb said.
Obituary, The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.) of 3 Sept 1943.
BODINE---At Clayton, Del., on September 2, 1943, John Bodine, Sr., aged 42 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the funeral chapel of W. A. Faries & Son, in Smyrna, on Saturday afternoon, September 4, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Smyrna. Friends may call Friday evening.
Ronny also sent me the following from the 1940 Census of Kent County, DE:
1st Rep. District. 2 April
BODINE, John 38 MD Laborer-RR, Helen 33 DE wife, John Jr. 14 DE son, Dorothy Mae 13 DE dau, Harry 8 DE son, Dolores 7 DE dau, Rena Jane 5 DE dau, Raymond 4 DE son, Charles 1 DE son.