Notes for: Myrtle Etta Bodine
From Ronny Bodine (Feb. 12, 2021):
From The Goshen Independent Republican (Goshen, N.Y.).
John Van Leuven of Goshen and Myrtle E. Bodine of Bloomingburgh were married 19 Feb 1899 at Middletown.
From New York Marriage Records:
John H. Van Leuven AND Myrtle E. Bodine were married 26 Feb 1899 in Middletown, Orange County.
In 1900, Myrtle Bodine was 22 and single, and lived with her parents in Mamakating, Sullivan County, working as a housekeeper. John H. Van Luven, born Dec 1871, married 1 year, was living with his parents in Goshen, Orange Co., NY.
From Records of First Presbyterian Church, Goshen, New York.
On 1 May 1904, Myrtle Etta Van Leuven was baptised.
The Nov 1919 obituary of her mother names Myrta, wife of John VanLeuven, of West New York, N.J.
1920 West NY Twp., Hudson Co., NJ: John Van Leuven 48 NY checker-coal dock, Myrtle 40 wife, Arthur 20 NY son, Emily 14 NY dau.
1930 West NY Twp., Hudson Co., NJ: John VAN LEUVEN 57 NY laborer, Myrtle 52 NY wife, Arthur 30 NY son. Married 32 years.
The Oct 1930 obituary of her brother George Bodine names a sister, Mrs. Myrta VanLeuvan of West New York, N.J.
Death Notice, Middletown Times Herald (Middletown, N.Y.) of 5 July 1934.
GOSHEN---Word was received here today that John Van Leuven died in New York this morning. Mr. Van Leuven was a former resident of Goshen. Mrs Van Leuven was Miss Myrtle Bodine of Bloomingburgh. The couple moved from here about twenty-five years ago.
Note: The above newspaper article erred on several points. The death was regarding Mrs. John Van Leuven and occurred not in New York, but in New York Township, Hudson County, New Jersey.
Obituary, The Jersey (NJ) Journal of Friday, 6 July 1934.
Mrs. Myrtle Van Leuven, 57, wife of John Van Leuven, 556 15th St., West New York, died Wednesday at home. Besides her husband, she leaves a son, Arthur, and a daughter, Mrs. Emily Musa, of Union City.
The Jersey (NJ) Journal of Sat., 2 Dec 1939.
John Van Leuven, 68, who made his home in a shack in the rear of Luckenbach Basin, North Bergen, was struck and fatally injured at 8:05 last night by a bus owned by the Westwood Bus Co., when, according to Boulevard police, he stepped from the curb at Boulevard East and 35th St., North Bergen, into the path of the bus. Removed to North Bergen Hospital in an ambulance, Van Leuven was treated by Dr. Cofari for a fractured skull and right arm. He died shortly after being admitted. There were no witnesses to the accident, police say. George L. Klovekorn, 46, of 4 Hillside Av., Westwood, driver of the bus, was booked at Boulevard police headquarters on charge of manslaughter by auto. He will be arraigned before Judge Paul F. Cullum in County Traffic Court Tuesday night. Boulevard Patrolmen Neil Hughes and Richard Carner, who searched for possible clues to relatives of the dead man in his shack, found a letter under the mattress of his bed with the address of his daughter on it. The daughter, Mrs. Muessee, of 313 29th St., Union City, was notified, and her husband identified the body.