Notes for: Luther Muril Bodine

I got a message from Linda Kay (Bodine) Wooten in November of 2002 with some information on this family. She said that Luther Bodine, her father Morris Jack Bodine, Leon Ray Bodine, and Nila Pearl Bodine all grew up and died in the Colorado City, Texas area. These are all siblings.

From Ronny Bodine:

From Tom Greene County, Texas Marriage Records:
Luther M. Bodine AND Ernestine House were married 3 Aug 1934 by W. D. Alldredge, M.G.

From Comanche County, Oklahoma Marriage Records:
Ralph Hoepfner, 38 AND Ernestine Bodine, 23, both residents of Wichita Falls, Texas were married 24 Sept 1941 in Lawton, by S. A. Logan, J.P.

From San Antonio Express (Texas) of 5 March 1940.
BIG SPRING, Tex., March 4. An early morning grade crash at Coahoma, 12 miles east of here, today took the lives of an oil field worker, his baby son, and a young nephew. Killed instantly when their light car was splintered by an eastbound Texas & Pacific passenger train were Luther Bodine, 24; Aubrey Allen Bodine, his nine-months-old son, and three-year-old L. E. Bodine. The crash occurred at an open crossing a quarter-mile east of the Coahoma station, as Bodine was enroute to take the nephew home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Bodine. All three occupants were thrown clear of the car, and its wreckage was strewn a half mile before the train could be brought to a stop. Bodine was employed by Elmer Terry, an oil field contractor.

Earnestine House, daughter of William Allen and Ada (Young) House, married 2ndly, Ralph T. Hoepfner (1903-1991) and 3rdly, Joe B. Ritchie (1904-1985).