This is a picture of Lena and her half-sister, Mary Alice Bodine.
This is a picture of Lena and her husband, Fred Anderson. I've read that "Lena" can be a form of "Helena" or even "Magdalena."
I received this message recently:
From: Jo Lang [divenursok at msn.com]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003
Cc: gus lang
Subject: bodine family tree
Hi , my name is Jo Lyna Lang. My brother, Gus Adolph Lang and I are the children of Martha June Anderson (Lang) and Gus Adolph Lang. Fred and Lena were my mom's parents. Mom is still alive, although she is very sedentary, forgetful and generally homebound. My father Gus Adolph, not Gus S, Lang died several years ago. June's sister Jodine Marie Bodine is deceased, as you have listed. I have contact address/phone numbers for her two sons, Tom and John - if anyone should wish to contact them. Neither my brother or I have children - at this time. The only child of my aunt's sons is Tom's son Danny.
It was neat to find your website. Thanks, Jo
From: Jo Lang [divenursok at msn.com]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003
Subject: RE: bodine family tree
Hi, I talked to my mom and she thinks that Lena and John were born in Texas. I do know that Lena, Fred and Sonora and Charles are all buried in Fairlawn Cemetary, 2700 N Shartel Ave in OKC. Thanks, Jo
From Ronny Bodine:
From Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Marriage Records:
Thomas Anderson, 31 AND Lena Belle Bodine, 27, both of Oklahoma City were married by license of 16 April 1914. No marriage return.
On 12 Sept 1918, Thomas Frederick Anderson registered for the World War I draft in Oklahoma City, naming his wife, Lena Anderson, as his next of kin. In 1920, Thomas and Lena Anderson lived in Boone Township, Oklahoma County with Lena's brother John Bodine and their mother and in 1930, with her mother, again in Oklahoma City, where Thomas was employed as a carpenter.
1940 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., OK: Fred ANDERSON 57 MS, Lena 53 TX wife, Jodine 18 OK dau, June 14 OK dau, Sonora BODINE 87 IN mother-in-law widowed.
From Oklahoma Death Records:
Lena Anderson died 3 Nov 1941 in Cleveland County.
Thomas Anderson died 15 Aug 1950 in Oklahoma County.
Obituary, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) of Tuesday, 4 Nov 1941.
Requiem mass for Mrs. Lena Anderson, 54 years old, 615 Southwest Twenty-seventh street, who died Monday,will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Sacred Heart church. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery. Rosary will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Capitol Hill funeral home. Mrs. Anderson, a county resident since 1889, was the wife of T. F. Anderson, a salesman.
Burials in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorials Nos. 28241472 & 28241500)
ANDERSON T. Fred 1883-1950 ANDERSON Lena B. 1887-1941
Children: Jodine (c1922), June (c1926).