Notes for: Milton Clyde Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
His birth was registered in San Saba County as Milton Clyde Bodine, but he was Clyde M. Bodine, age 17, living in April 1930 with his parents in Richland Springs, San Saba County. He was buried as Clyde Bodine in Richland Springs Cemetery, San Saba County.
Obituary, The Suffolk County News (Sayville, N.Y.) of 25 April 1941.
Milton Clyde Bodine, 28-year-old Civil Aeronautics Authority engineer assigned to duty at the West Sayville radio station, was accidentally electrocuted at 7:50 o'clock on Monday night while demonstrating recently installed apparatus. Despite heroic efforts on the part of fellow workers and members of the first aid squad of the Sayville Fire Department to save him, he was pronounced dead about two hours later by Dr. Thomas M. Winston of Sayville. Bodine, whose home is in Fort Worth, Texas, and who has resided in Sayville at various intervals during the past two years while engaged in the installation of new transmitters in the local station, was explaining the workings of a portion of a large piece of radio apparatus to his immediate superior, E. H. Smith, when the tragedy occurred. He was leaning against an iron guard rail surrounding the machine and pointing toward the apparatus with the index finger of his right hand when his finger apparently was placed too close to the new wiring which was charged with between 6,000 and 12,000 volts of electricity. The charge entered his body through the extended finger and left through his left side, which had made contact with the guard rail. The force of the charge spun him completely around and knocked him to the floor. He is believed to have died instantly. The volunteer firemen who were summoned to the scene worked over Bodine for more than two hours with a respirator but in vain. Coroner Grover A. Silliman conducted an inquest and ruled that his death was accidental. Despite the fact that he lived here only two years, and then only during intervals, Bodine made many friends and was well liked here. He held a position as engineer in charge of new installation with the CAA and he supervised such installation as various CAA stations throughout the country. While here he resided at The Alvin on Gillette avenue. The deceased was born in Richland Springs, Texas, where the body was shipped for burial on Wednesday after reposing since his death in Raynor's Memorial Chapel. Bodine, who was unmarried, is survived by his mother and four sisters in Fort Worth.
From New York Death Records:
Milton C. Bodine, 28, died 21 April 1941 in Islip, Suffolk County.