Notes for: Albert ("Al") Bernell Beaudine / Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
The 1915 Iowa State Census recorded Albert Bodine living in Polk County with his wife Lila and son Melvin. On 12 Sept 1918, Al Bernell Bodine registered for the World War 1 draft in Waterloo, Iowa. He reported he was born 4 April 1884, operated a popcorn stand and his nearest kin was his wife, Mrs. Lila B. Bodine. In April 1925, the Iowa State Census recorded Lila Bodine, 33 and her son, Melvin, 11, living with her brother Dan Shepard and his family in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. In April 1930, Lilla and Melvin "Beaudine" lived in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. Lilla, 38 and widowed and Melvin, 16, both reported they were not working.
Obituary, Waterloo Daily Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) of 13 April 1977.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lila B. Beaudine, 81, of 902 Newton St., were at 2 p.m. Friday at the Grandview Funeral Home in Des Moines. Mrs. Beaudine died Wednesday evening in Allen Memorial Hospital. The Rev. Arthur Gronberg, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, officiated and burial was in the Highland Memory Gardens in Des Moines. Kearns-Dykeman Chapel was in charge of the local arrangements. Mrs. Beaudine was born in Chariton Jan. 3, 1892, to Frank and Lizetta Wiesman Andrews. She lived in Des Moines for 31 years and had resided in Waterloo and worked for the YMCA here for 16 years. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church. She is survived by one son Melvin, of Atlantic; one brother, Carl Andrews of Des Moines; and one grandson and two great-grandsons.
Obituary, The Evening Courier and Reporter (Waterloo, Iowa) of 4 Nov 1918.
Albert Bernell Bodine, age 33, died at his home, 145 Smith street Saturday evening after an illness of ten days of pneumonia which developed from influenza. His remains were taken to the Hileman & Gindt undertaking parlors, where services were held in the chapel Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. B. Smith officiating. Interment was in the mausoleum. Mr. Bodine had lived here two years and conducted a popcorn stand at Fourth and Lafayette streets. July 35, 1917, he met with an accident on Bridge street, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He was driving a laundry wagon and was struck by a street car. Mr. Bodine is survived by his widow, a 5-year-old son. Surviving also are his father, five brothers and one sister, all living at Peoria, Ill.