Notes for: Joseph ("Joe") B. Bodine
From: G E [wind.nsea at verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Subject: hi Dave
I found your email address at the 'freepages' website. I recently re-organized my shed and locked away were some old photos of Bodines from 1920's and 1930's, mostly as children. I got them from an elderly friend, Clara Marie Bodine. she went by "Claire" rather than Clara. she was residing in Buena Park CA in the 90's and she had lived there after retirement with her husband Joe (I believe also pictured as an child/young teen) for 25-30 years. she gave them to me in her last years. she seemed to think no one else was interested. I took them for safekeeping and now would like to find Bodines who would want them.
they are all taken with the same camera, sepia colored from age, 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 ". my friend was named as "Dolly" on the backs of the photos and she often told me she was called Dolly by her family in New Jersey.
the other names on the photos seem to be all Bodines - I believe she may have been orphaned and lived with her cousins. she passed about ten years ago in her late 80's (not sure of the years just now) so I don't recall for sure about her family, but I think her parents were gone, and I know she had no children.
named are Dolly, Martha Jane, Margaret Jane, Elizabeth, Alice, Franklyn, and Joe. and a couple of dogs.
I would like to send them to whomever would preserve them and make them available to others. may I send them to you?
thank you for any advice.
Genny Edge
Fallon, NV
[Note from Dave: I wrote back to Genny, but I don't ever remember getting these photos from her. I'm not sure what happened.]
From Ronny Bodine:
Obituary, The Star-Gazette (Hackettstown and Washington, NJ) of 3 Feb 1972.
Services were held yesterday morning in the DeVoe Funeral Home, Washington, for Joseph Bodine, 57, of 7891 Gardenia Drive, Buena Park, Calif., formerly of Washington, who died Saturday, January 29, 1972. Mr. Bodine was a retired utility man, formerly employed by the Ideal Dairy. Born in Washington, he was a son of the late Frank and Edna Rush Bodine. He had lived in Paterson 23 years before moving to California in 1967. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of the United Methodist Church, Asbury, and the Loyal Order of Moose No. 512, Washington. Survivors include his widow, the former Clara Lambert; five sisters, Miss Margaret Bodine, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoppock, Mrs. Jane Hoppock and Mrs. Alice Kries, all of Washington, and Mrs. Ruth Rounsaville, Asbury two stepbrothers, C. Fletcher Bodine of Washington R.D. 1 and Robert Bodine in Florida. Interment was in the Asbury Cemetery.
Newspaper Obituary, The Express-Times (Easton, Pa.) of 16 May 2003.
Clara M. Lambert Bodine, 88, of Buena Park, Calif., formerly of Patterson, N.J., died Monday, May 12, 2003, in Anaheim Terrace Care Center in Anaheim, Calif. Born: Aug. 4, 1914, in Paterson, N.J., the daughter of the late George and Catherine Feely Lambert. Personal: Her husband, Joseph, died in 1970. Clara was a former telephone operator for New Jersey Bell in Paterson, over 30 years ago. She had been a resident of Buena Park for the past 33 1/2 years. Memberships: She was a member of the Catholic Society of St. Pisa the V Catholic Church of Buena Park. Survivors: many nieces and nephews. Services: A visitation will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday in the DeVoe Funeral Service, 136 W. Washington Ave., Washington, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 200 W. Carlton Ave., Washington. Burial will be in the Asbury Methodist Cemetery in Asbury.
Burials in Asbury Methodist Church Cemetery, Asbury, Warren County, New Jersey.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorials Nos. 23147563 & 23147599)
Joseph Bodine Sept. 4, 1914 Jan. 29, 1972
Clara M. Lambert wife of Joseph Bodine Aug. 4, 1914 May 12, 2003