Notes for: Alice Jean Bodine
From: Rashawna Dukes [rashawna.dukes at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023
Subject: Alice J Bodine
I am the granddaughter of Alice Jean Bodine Craig. The information you have listed for her mother and father is incorrect. Her biological father is Walter Nathaniel Miller born 12/12/1908 in Racine, Newton,Missouri and her mother is Hazel Lippincott Bodine born 1/27/1890 in Camden, New Jersey. My grandmother was born in Galena, Kansas 4/22/1928. She has a biological sister Mary Miller born in 1931. I believe I saw the information you have written about her and you do have the correct biological parents listed for Mary. They were adopted by their uncle after the passing of Hazel. I am in the process of doing some ancestry on my family and came across this site. Thank you for what you do it's all very interesting.
From Ronny Bodine (Apr. 23, 2023):
Alice Craig was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Purcell, McClain County, Oklahoma.
Obituary, the Purcell "Register" of 2 Feb 2006.
Funeral services for Alice J. Craig, 77, of Purcell were held Feb. 1, 2006 at First Baptist Church in Purcell with Dr. Patrick Mead and the Rev. Bob Atterberry officiating. Interment was at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell under the direction of Wilson-Little Funeral Home in Purcell. Mrs. Craig died Jan. 29, 2006 at Norman Specialty Hospital. She was born April 22, 1928 in Galena, Kan., the oldest of four children of Harry Evans Bodine and Anne Treadwell Bodine. She was reared in Dallas, Texas, graduating from Highland Park High School in 1946. After high school, she began nursing school at Parkland Hospital. While in college she met and married Johnny Weldon Craig on Dec. 20, 1948 in Rockwall, Texas. After Mrs. Craig completed three years of nursing school, the couple moved to Lubbock, Texas. In 1957 they moved to Choctaw where they reared their four children. Over the years, Mrs. Craig was active in her children's activities including Brownies and Girl Scouts. For nearly 30 years she was an active member of the Choctaw First Baptist Church where she was involved in WMU, taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was a cook at Falls Creek. In 1990, the Craigs moved to Beaver and became members of the Beaver First Baptist Church. In 2000 they moved to Purcell to be close to their children and she became a member of Purcell First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Mary Dielmann and Pam Craig. Survivors include her husband, Johnny Craig, of the home; three daughters, Phyllis McElroy and her husband, Howard, of Choctaw, Rosie Kane and her husband, Darrell, of Snyder and Laura McCullough and her husband, Steve, of Yukon; one son, Johnny K. Craig and his fiancee, Virl Robinson, of Choctaw; one sister, Helen Bohler of Cincinnati, Ohio; one brother, Harry E. Bodine III and his wife, Nona, of Portland, Ore.; one brother-in-law, Marvin Deilmann of Nevada; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were her grandchildren, Trey, Brad and Chad Craig, Chance Shipman, Chris McCullough, Larry Dukes and Steve West. Honorary pallbearers were her Sunday school class. Memorials may be made to the Purcell First Baptist Church Building Fund.
Alice Jean and her sister Mary Esther Bodine are the natural children of Walter Nathaniel Miller and Hazel Lippincott Bodine, who, following the death of their mother in 1940, were adopted by their uncle Harry Evans Bodine Jr and his wife.