Notes for: Orville Derell ("Dick") Bodine
From: JAMES LEHR [swagman2 at verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017
Subject: Hulda Ellen Dalton
Hi,
Hulda (known as 'Hazel') was my maternal grandmother. Her first spouse was Dick Bodine, who was killed in a light plane, circa 1927.
Hulda had two children, Charles Lewis Bodine, and my mother Ethel Louise Bodine.
Hulda's father was William Dalton.
I would welcome any information you could point me to which would flesh out what I know about the Bodine side of my family.
James D. Lehr
Jarrettsville, Maryland
From Ronny Bodine:
1st marriage--1913--HULDA ELLEN DALTON.
From Lawrence County, Illinois Marriage Records:
Orville Bodine, 19, son of Dick & Ida (Scott) Bodine AND Hulda Dalton, 16, dau. of William & Mary (Trobal) Dalton, were married 15 Feb 1913.
In June 1900, Huldah E. Dalton, born July 1896 in Illinois, lived with her parents in Martin, Crawford Co., Illinois.
On 5 June 1917, Orville Derell Bodine registered for the World War 1 draft in Payne County, Oklahoma. He reported he was born 6 March 1894 in High Knobb, Ohio, was married and had 2 children. The 1919 Shawnee City Directory shows Orville D. and Hulda D. Bodine as residents and Orville employed as a fireman.
1920 (7 Jan) Cushing, Payne Co., OK: Orvil D. BODINE 25 OH Driller-Oil Field, Hulda E. 22 IL wife, Louise E. 5 OK dau, Lewis C. 2 11/12 OK son.
1930 (4 April) Cushing, Payne Co., OK: Newton KING 37 MO married@21 Truck Driver-Steam Laundry, Ellen H. 32 IL married @ 15 wife Press Operator-Dry Cleaners, Louise BODINE 15 OK step-dau, Louis BODINE 13 OK step-son.
1940 Johnson, Carter Co., MO: Thomas N. KING 48 MO, Ellen E. 41 IL wife.
Obituary, The Current Local (Van Buren, MO) of 10 Jan 1974.
Funeral was held Monday afternoon for Mrs. Hazel E. King, 77, Elsinore housewife, who died at 9:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 1974. Mrs. King had been stricken and taken to the Poplar Bluff Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Her death was attributed to heart failure. Mrs. King had been a resident of Carter County for 42 years, and had previously lived at Cushing, Okla. She was born July 28, 1896 in Illinois. Mrs. King was a member of the Ellsinore Methodist Church. She was married on Feb. 2, 1929 to T. N. King, who survives. Other survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Louise O. Lehr of Grayling, Mich.; five grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; one brother, Elmis Dalton; four sisters, Mrs. Susan Faith of Sumner, Ill., Mrs. Chloe Pond of Jackson, Ill.; Mrs. Inez Box of Roseburg, Ore., and Mrs. Ruth Schneider of Overland. The funeral was held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Ellsinore Methodist Church with Luther Boyer officiating. Burial was in Smith's Chapel Cemetery, with arrangements by the McSpadden Funeral Home.
From The Current Local (Van Buren, MO) of Thur., 9 Feb 1978:
The obituary of Thomas Newton King, 86, who died 5 Feb 1978 in Poplar Bluff, reports he married Hazel Dalton on 2 Feb 1929 and that she died in January 1974.
2nd marriage--1926--MARY ELLEN LOCKWOOD.
From Tulsa County, Oklahoma Marriage Records:
Orville D. Bodine, 30 AND Mary Ellen Lockwood, 16, with permission of her mother, Mrs. B. F. Waddington, were married 1 May 1926 at Tulsa by W. H. Murphy Jr., Minister, Second Presbyterian Church, Tulsa.
From The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisc.) of Wednesday, 2 Nov 1927.
Tulsa, Okla.--(UP)--Mrs. Mary Ellen Bodine, 19, wife of O. D. Bodine, Appleton, Wis., airmail pilot, was shot to death in an apartment here yesterday, while a guest hammered jazz airs on a piano. The pianist, a young man, and three women, in addition to Mrs. Bodine, were in the apartment. The man too a gun from his pocket and paid it on the piano as he started to play, the other guests said. Mrs. Bodine picked it up and was playing with it, they said, when it discharged and she fell mortally wounded. The pianist fled. His identity was not learned.
From Estate File 6966, Tulsa County, Oklahoma:
Mrs. B. F. Waddington filed for probate of the estate of her daughter, Mary Ellen Bodine, who died 1 Nov 1927 in Tulsa. The case file made no reference to Mary's husband. [Note: Mrs. B. F. Waddington was Henrietta, wife of Bernard F. Waddington of Tulsa with whom she is living in 1930 in Tulsa, Tulsa County. Previously, she was married to Ora Moses Murfin, with whom she and their daughter, Mary Ellen Murfin, age 10, were living in 1920 in Oklahoma City.]
3rd marriage--about 1928--VELDA E. HAWLEY.
1930 (10 April) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co.: Orvile BODINE 36 KS married@34, Vella 23 OK married@21, Ralph 2 4/12 KS son.
From Kansas Federal Census Records:
1940 (29 April) Ninnescah Twp., Cowley Co.: Stacey HANN 51 KS Farmer, Velta 34 OK wife, Ralph Hugh BODINE 11 KS stepson.
Orville Bodine's third wife and widow, Velda, was the daughter of Frank P. and Ollie (Kutch) Hawley. She married 2ndly in 1932, Edgar Allen, 3rdly Stacey E. Hann (1888-1946) and 4thly, Roy Samuel Rowe (1891-1987), who survived his wife. In his 1987 newspaper obituary in The Oklahoman, his survivors included his stepson, Ralph Bodine of Durham NC.
From Miami Daily News-Record (Miami, Okla.) of Thursday, 8 May 1930.
Oklahoma City, May 8--(AP)--A year after his airplane crashed, killing Arthur G. Head and injuring him, O. D. (Dick) Bodine, 36, Oklahoma City aviator and fireman, today shot himself to death in his apartment. Taken immediately to a local hospital, Bodine was dead when placed upon the operating table. Neighbors said Bodine had been despondent since the airplane crash and that his despondency was climaxed by his dismissal yesterday from the Oklahoma City fire department. Mrs. Bodine, who said she did not know why her husband had been discharged from the fire department force, asserted that Bodine several times had threatened to take his life. One shot was fired from Bodine's rifle, lodging in his temple. The airplane crash, May 4, 1929, was attributed to bad air currents that caught the ship as Bodine attempted to bank it over the airfield. Mrs. Bodine witnessed the shooting, she said, but was unable to reach her husband in time to prevent him from firing the shot. The tragedy occurred on her twenty-third birthday. Besides Mrs. Bodine, an 18-months-old son, Ralph, survives. The widow said she was virtually without funds and that Bodine left no insurance.
From Oklahoma Death Records:
Orville D. Bodine died 8 May 1930 in Oklahoma County.
Velda E. Rowe died 3 Feb 1973 in Kay County.
From Social Security Death Records:
Velta Rowe, born 8 May 1905, died Feb 1973, last residence was Ponca City, Kay Co., Oklahoma.
Burials in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 46741282)
O. D. (Dick) Bodine 1894 - 1930
Burials in Resthaven Memorial Park, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 96149516)
Velda E. Rowe (Beloved Wife Of Roy) 1905---1973