Notes for: Genevieve Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
In 1900, William Frost was engaged in farming, operating the 280-acre Rising Sun Farm in Bradford Township. Soon after he became Vice President of the Northern Illinois Electric Rail Road Company. In 1930, William Frost was serving as a Deputy Sheriff for Lee County. See the "History of Lee County, Illinois," Chicago, 1914, p. 275-276.
Obituary, Dixon (Ill.) Evening Telegraph of 29 Jan 1951.
Genevieve Bodine Frost,, wife of William Frost, died at her home in Lee Center at 7 p. m. Sunday after a lingering illness. For nearly 15 years she was a faithful correspondent of Lee Center news for the Dixon Evening Telegraph. She was born in Lee Center, Nov. 9, 1874, the daughter of A. Z. and Katherine Bodine. She is survived by her husband, William S. Frost and one son, Lyle, Lee Center. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Bernice, in 1921 and a son, Harold W., in 1937. Funeral services will be held at the Lee Center Congregational church at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. The body will be taken to the church at 1 o'clock. Friends may call at the Hicks funeral home, Franklin Grove Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Obituary, Dixon (Ill.) Evening Telegraph of 2 Jan 1962.
FRANKLIN GROVE---Funeral services were to be held today at 2 p.m., for William S. Frost, 89, Lee Center, in the Hicks Funeral Home, Franklin Grove, with the Rev. James E. Elliott, Lee Center Congregational Church, officiating. Burial was to be in Woodside Cemetery, Lee Center. Mr. Frost, who died Sunday, in the Forman Nursing Home, Amboy, was born Sept. 22, 1872, the son of William and Sophia Shaw Frost, in Bradford Township, Lee County. He was married to Genivieve Bodine in 1898 in Lee Center. He is survived by a son, Lyle, Lee Center; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Burials in Woodside Cemetery, Amboy, Lee County, Illinois.
(For grave marker photos see Find A Grave Memorials No. 43573842 &
William S. Frost Jr. 1872-1961 Genevieve B. Frost 1874-1951
Children: Harold W. (27 May 1902), Lyle B. (13 July 1908), Katherine Berenice (27 Aug 1911).