Notes for: LeRoy ("Roy") Merrill Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1910, Roy Bodine, age 19 and single, was living with his parents in Walnut, Bureau County, Illinois and working as a salesman of toilet soap. On 5 June 1917, Leroy M. Bodine registered for the World War I draft in Walnut, Bureau County. He claimed exemption based upon suffering from infantile paralysis. In 1920, aged 29 and single, he was still living with his parents and was unemployed. In 1930, as Leroy Bodine, age 39 and single, he lived with his mother and was unemployed.
In 1942, Leroy Merrill Bodine, a resident of Walnut, Bureau County, Illinois, registered for the World War II Draft and reported he was born 2 June 1890 in Walnut. He named Miss Florence Bodine as his next of kin.
Obituary, Bureau County Republican (Princeton, IL) of Thurs., 19 April 1962.
LeRoy Merrill Bodine, 72, Walnut, died at 2:30 a.m. Sunday in Perry Memorial hospital, Princeton, where he had been a patient only a few hours. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Ross Funeral home in Walnut, with the Rev. Ernest Cummings, pastor of the Walnut Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in the Walnut cemetery. He was born in Walnut, June 2, 1890, the son of William and Clara Bodine. He spent his entire life in Walnut where he and his sister operated a small store. he is survived by his sister, Miss Florence Bodine; a nephew, Ivan Bodine, Corvallis, Ore., and a niece, Mrs. Marguerite Harderson, Dixon. He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Frank, Clarence, and Charles.