Notes for: Thomas Lee Bodine, Sr.
Tom and Pat are descendants of Thomas Lee Bodine. Their email is tomandpat at thrifty.net. They said that Thomas was a barber and a veteran of WW II. I've seen his wife's name spelled a couple of ways. It may have been Myrtle Mae Niemyer / Niemeyer. RB had Myrtle Eleanore Neimeier.
I did have that he was born Feb. 5, 1905. RB has Feb. 6, 1906.
From Ronny Bodine:
Thomas Bodine was stationed in 1930 with the U. S. Army at Fort Crockett, Galveston County, Texas.
Obituary, the Galveston News of 1 Sept 1957.
TEXAS CITY, Aug. 31-Thomas Lee Bodine Sr., 56, 2121 Texas avenue, died at his residence early Saturday morning following a lengthy illness. Mr. Bodine was a barber by trade and operated Bodine's Barber Shop on Sixth street in Texas City for many years prior to his illness. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of La Marque and was a member of Texas City Lodge 1118, A.F. & A.M., the Scottish rite bodies of Galveston and El Mina Shrine Temple. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Bodine; two sons, Thomas Lee Jr., of Lake Jackson and Ronald S. Bodine of Texas City; a daughter, Miss Elouise Bodine of Texas City; three brothers, James Bodine of Texas City; John Lloyd and Frank Bodine of California; four sisters, Mrs. Elsie Hopkins, Mrs. A.E. Bearden, Mrs. Sam King, all of California, and Mrs. Mattie Shea of Purcell, Okla.; and one grandson, Thomas Lee III. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday from the Eroken-Linton funeral home chapel in Texas City, the Rev. T. J. Roth officiating. Burial will be in Galveston Memorial park with graveside rites conducted by the Masonic lodge of Texas City. Pallbearers will be Julius Kennedy, Vernon Steed, T. W. Edler, Roy Martin, R. L. McConnell and Arthur Burch
Obituary, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) of 28 June 1993.
LA MARQUE--Myrtle E. Bodine, 81, of Texas City died Saturday, June 26, while camping with the family in New Braunsfels, Texas. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in La Marque, with the Rev. Roy Timaeus officiating. Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchcock. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today at James Crowder Funeral Home in La Marque. Mrs. Bodine was a native Galvestonian. She married Thomas Bodine Aug. 17, 1932. She lived in Texas City for 52 years. She was a homemaker most of her life and worked at the Jack Tar Restaurant in Galveston and Danforth Hospital. She was an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church in La Marque for 51 years. She also was very active with the senior citizens center in Texas City. She is survived by three children, Thomas Bodine Jr. and wife, Pat, Elouise Lawrence and husband, John, and Ronald Bodine and wife, Brenda; seven grandchildren, Thomas Bodine III, M'Liss Harrington, Shelly Leeson, Dana Hamilton, Ronnie Bodine, Robert Lawrence and Melanie Tucker; and eight great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Ronnie Bodine, Thomas Bodine III, Richie Hamilton, Robert Lawrence, Joe Tucker and Mike Leeson. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Trinity Lutheran Church or a charity of your choice. June Crowder Funeral Home.
From Social Security Applications and Claims:
Myrtle Elinor Bodine applied for a SSN in January 1960 and reported she was born 13 Dec 1911 in Galveston, Texas, dau. of William & Bertha (Schmeich) Niemeyer. She died 26 June 1993.