Notes for: Wilbert LeRoy Bodine, Sr.
I read at WorldConnect that he died of a brain tumor.
Shareen Hobbs
Posted: 25 Nov 2007 at Ancestry Bodine Forum
My grandfather was William Bodine, bother of your Ggrandfather, Albert. I have done a lot of geneology and can give you the information you need. My mother Gwen is still alive and the families were quite close. I saw Alvin & Diane & their son years ago,they may still be in Arkansas. My e-mail is sshobbs at cox.net.
Shareen Hobbs
From Ronny Bodine:
1st marriage--1945--VIOLET FAY CRADDUCK.
From Crawford County, Arkansas Marriage Records:
Wilbert L. BODINE, 21 AND Violet Cradduck, 17, both of Van Buren, Crawford County, were married 11 Aug 1945. [Note: Violet (Cradduck) Bodine was the daughter of David Boone and Flora Ida (Maxwell) Cradduck. She married 2ndly, Aubrey Trout with whom she was living in 1948 in San Diego, Calif.]
Death Notice, Family Funeral Care, Memphis, TN.
VIOLET FAY TROUT April 7, 1928---February 16, 2017
Arrangements under the direction of Family Funeral Care, Memphis, TN.
2nd marriage--1948--BERNICE ALINE HILLMAN.
From Poinsett County, Arkansas Marriage Records:
Wilbert Leroy Bodine AND Bernice Aline Hillman, both of Van Buren, Arkansas, were married 13 Nov 1948 by John Collier, Pastor.
Wilbert and Bernice Bodine were buried in Gill Cemetery, Van Buren County. Bernice was the daughter of Levi Newton and Esther Denton (Sims) Hillman.
Obituary, The Southwest Times Record (Fort Smith, Ark.) of 3 Nov 2004.
ALMA - Bernice Bodine, 74, of Alma died Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, in a local nursing home. She was born Sept. 25, 1930, in Gainesville, Mo. She was a retired employee of O.K. Foods and a member of Fort Smith Christian Center. Funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lewis Funeral Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Gill Cemetery in Van Buren. She is survived by a daughter, Janice Bogner of Fort Smith; a son, Donny Bodine of Fort Smith; six sisters, Opal Tanner of Lincoln, Juanita Key of Van Buren, Ruby Roberts of Alma, Mary Vaughn of Gentryville, Ind., Jean Richmond of New Castle, Okla., and Sue Kear of Melbourne, Fla.; and one grandchild. Pallbearers will be Stanley, Ronnie and Dewain Key and James Tanner.