The following was found on the Internet in January of 1999.
Named to the Rough Rider Award Hall of Fame during the International Year of the Child, Mrs. Frank Bodine served as the 1968 North Dakota Mother of the Year.
Education played an important role in Bodine's life. All 18 of the Bodine children received post-high school education. Her 10 sons received college degrees. Six of her daughters attended college and the other two daughters received business training. For 26 years, including ten summer sessions, one or more of her family was enrolled at Minot State College.
Bodine was active in church, civic, and community projects for many years. Assisting the Indian people in the Belcourt area, contributing clothing and food to her relatives in Poland during World War II, and sending boxes of clothing to Vietnam are but a few of the many projects to which she has contributed herself.