Notes for: John William ("Billy") Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Loudoun County, Virginia Marriage Records:
John William Bodine, 19, single, laborer, of Leesburg, VA, born in Loudoun County, son of George William Bodine & May Belle Keyes AND Patricia Wells Tavenner, 18, single, of Leesburg, born in Washington, D.C., dau. of Claude Tallman Tavenner & Ruth Julene Sawicki, were married 8 Sept 1960 in Leesburg, by Robert J. Stith, Minister of the Baptist Church.
From Virginia Divorce Records:
John William Bodine, 20, of Leesburg, VA, born in Leesburg AND Patricia Wells Tavenner Bodine, 19, of Silver Spring, MD, born in Silver Spring, who had married 8 Sept 1960 in Leesburg, were divorced 10 Jan 1962 in Leesburg, Loudoun County.
From Virginia Death Records:
Patricia Gillespie, dau. of Cloyd [sic] Tavenner & Ruth Sawicki, wife of Robert Charles Gillespie, resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, born 29 June 1942 in Washington, D.C., died 15 April 1973 in Alexandria, Fairfax County, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest and was buried in Union Cemetery, Leesburg, VA.
Obituary, Leesburg Today (Leesburg, Va.) of 13 Oct 2015.
John William "Billy" Bodine (Age 74) passed away peacefully on October 2, 2015 at Inova Loudoun Hospital after a battle with cancer. He was born on July 20, 1941, to the late George William Bodine and May Belle Keys and was a lifelong resident of Mount Gilead Village, and the third generation living in "The Cottage House" purchased by his Grandfather, J. Howard Keys, in 1911. Billy was among the last students to attend Mountain Gap School, a one-room school house on Rt. 15 near Oatlands. He later attended Loudoun County High School. He was employed by Barber & Ross Co. in Leesburg for over 25 years and was engaged in custom farming in the Mount Gilead area. Billy developed many interests over his lifetime and taught himself to become a talented welder and metal fabricator, auto mechanic, furniture maker, wildlife photographer and amateur arborist. He was a protector of wildlife on Mount Gilead. He researched and planted unusual varieties of trees, which are not native to the area, but which could thrive in this environment and provide a source of food for the deer which visited his home each day. Billy is survived by several cousins and his many friends and neighbors on Mount Gilead and will be missed. Friends are invited to call at the Loudoun Funeral Chapel, 158 Catoctin Circle, Leesburg VA, between 6 and 8 PM on Friday Oct. 9, 2015. A service will be held at the same location at 10 AM on Saturday October 10, 2015 with internment following at Union Cemetery in Leesburg. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, PO Box 326, Millwood VA 22646 or Inova Loudoun Hospital.