Notes for: Verlea Eveline Bodine

Headline: Verlea Bodine
Publication Date: September 17, 1994
Source: Peoria Journal Star
Page: D10
Region: Illinois

Obituary: CANTON -- Verlea E. Bodine, 95, of 250 S. Main died at 2:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, 1994, at Graham Hospital. She was born March 18, 1899, in Canton to William Marvin and Margaret L. Lintz Bodine.

Surviving are her friends, Marvin and Helen Johnson of Canton; and several cousins. She was preceded in death by a half sister. She taught school in Ollie & West Branch, Iowa, for 50 years, retiring in 1968. She was a member of Rebekah Lodge 245, Fulton County Retired Teachers Association and the Fulton County Senior Citizen Retirees Club. She was an honorary member of the Grandmothers Club of Canton.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Murphy-Sedgwick Memorial Home, where visitation will be one hour before services. Burial will be in Blandinsville Cemetery in Blandinsville. Memorials may be made to the YWCA Elderly Nutrition Project or Maple Manor Community Club.

From Ronny Bodine:

Obituary, The Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) of 17 Sept 1994.
CANTON -- Verlea E. Bodine, 95, of 250 S. Main died at 2:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, 1994, at Graham Hospital. She was born March 18, 1899, in Canton to William Marvin and Margaret L. Lintz Bodine. Surviving are her friends, Marvin and Helen Johnson of Canton; and several cousins. She was preceded in death by a half sister. She taught school in Ollie & West Branch, Iowa, for 50 years, retiring in 1968. She was a member of Rebekah Lodge 245, Fulton County Retired Teachers Association and the Fulton County Senior Citizen Retirees Club. She was an honorary member of the Grandmothers Club of Canton. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Murphy-Sedgwick Memorial Home, where visitation will be one hour before services. Burial will be in Blandinsville Cemetery in Blandinsville. Memorials may be made to the YWCA Elderly Nutrition Project or Maple Manor Community Club.

Burials in Glade City Cemetery, Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 127500187)
VERLEA BODINE 1899---1994