Notes for: Harry Abraham Bodine, Jr.
From Ronny Bodine:
Harry Bodine was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II having enlisted 1941 in Trenton, New Jersey. Military records recorded his birth as 7 Jan 1917 and his death as 17 July 1978.
1st marriage--1944--EVELYN XIQUES.
From Morning Post (Camden, NJ) of 25 Jan 1944.
A local youth and a WAC, both stationed at Bowman Field, Ky., were married recently as the result of an Army romance. Master Sgt. Harry A. Bodine, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bodine , of Laurel Springs, took as his bride, Pfc. Evelyn Xiques. Following the ceremony, they traveled to Laurel Springs to spend a honeymoon furlough. Sergeant Bodine, a graduate of Glassboro High school, entered the service in April, 1941, and became a master sergeant in March, 1943.
2nd marriage--1951--THELMA I. PIERSON.
From New Jersey Marriage Records:
Harry A. Bodine AND Thelma I. Pierson were married March 1951 in Somerdale, Camden County.
The newspaper obituary of Ermin R. Pierson, 83, in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 30 Dec 1991, names among his survivors, his sister, Thelma Bodine of Clementon. The obituary of Ethel (Pierson) Fisher, 90, in the Courier-Post (Canden, NJ) of 24 Dec 1996 also names her surviving sister Thelma Bodine of Clementon. The obituary of Stanley H. Fisher, 73, in the Courier-Post of 29 April 2004 names his surviving aunt Thelma Bodine of Pine Hill (in Camden County). [In 1940, Thelma I. Pierson, 8 NJ, lived with her parents, Alfred B. & Edith N. Pierson, in Lindenwold, Camden County, New Jersey. As the family lived in Camden County from 1910 on, it appears Thelma was born there.] Pine Hill is a borough in Camden County
The Social Security Administration recorded the death of Thelma Bodine on 29 Oct 2013. In 2007 she lived in Pine Hill, NJ. No obituary was published. Her final residence was in Williamstown, Gloucester Co., NJ living with her stepson William H. Bodine.
From New Jersey Death Records:
Harry A. Bodine of Lindenwold, Camden County, died 17 July 1978 in Voorhees Township, Camden County.
Thelma I. Bodine was born 8 June 1921 in Lindenwold, NJ and died 29 Oct 2013.
Obituary, Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, NJ) of 19 July 1978.
BODINE. On July 17, 1978 Harry A. Husband of Thelma (nee Pierson) of East Maple Ave, Lindenwold. Age 61. Survived by one son William, Lindenwold, and one sister Mrs. Helen Hartman of Stratford. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services on Saturday 10 a.m. from The Danks Home for Funerals, James Hinski II, Director. White Horse Pike, Lindenwold, N.J. Interment Erial Cemetery. Friends may call one hour prior to services. No viewing Friday evening.
Burials in Erial Cemetery, Erial, Camden County, New Jersey.
(Find A Grave Memorial # 108830140)
BODINE Harry A. 1917-1978 Thelma I. 1921-(blank)