Notes for: John Walter Bodine

From the obituaries of his children, I wonder if John Walter Bodine had any Bodine siblings. It doesn't look like it, but that is a guess. This family appears to have been Methodist. That might help figure out how they are related to other Bodines in the area or elsewhere.

From Ronny Bodine:

In the 2006 newspaper obituary of his son Allen Bodine he is called Walter Bodine and in the 2010 newspaper obituary of his daughter Ilene Bodine Darbee, he is called J. Walter Bodine. Other scattered references name his son John Bodine as John Bodine, Jr., thereby establishing his full name as John Walter Bodine. In the city directories of Bay City, Michigan between 1944 and 1954 he is listed most often as Walter J. Bodine, assistant foreman and later as foreman of the Jennison Hardware Company. He seems to have been long deceased as he does not appear in the Social Security death Benefits Index and presumably having been born around 1918 or 1919, cannot be readily located in the censuses of 1920 or 1930.