Notes for: John 'Oscar' Bodin / Bodine
From Ronny Bodine (August 27, 2020):
1900 Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT: John BODINE March 1858 [age 42] SWE moulder-foundry, Oscar April 1888 MI son, Hildegarde Sept 1892 CT dau. Married 14 years [but no wife named] Immigrated 1885.
1910 Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT: John BODINE 57 SWE widowed moulder-iron foundry, Oscar 22 CT son, Hildegarde 18 CT dau. Immigrated 1879, naturalized.
From Records of Salem Lutheran Church, Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT.
Johan Oskar BODIN born 12 April 1888 in Frankfort, Michigan, Emma Edith Karolina Nyholm, born 11 June 1888 in Naugatuck, Conn. and bapt. 8 July 1888, Oscar Ernest, born 3 April 1911 in Naugatuck, bapt. 21 May 1911. Married 22 June 1910. Dropped 3 Jan 1913.
Ernest Oscar Bodine was born 3 April 1911 in Naugatuck to Oscar and Edith Bodine and was baptized 21 May 1911.
Records of Augustana Lutheran Church (Bethlehem) Detroit, Michigan:
John Carl Bodine was born 26 Feb 1917 in Detroit to John Oscar & Emma Edith Bodine and was baptized 15 July 1917.
John Oscar Bodin registered for the World War I Draft on 5 June 1917 in Wayne County, Michigan. He reported he was born 12 April 1888 in Frankfort, Michigan, worked as a foreman for the Cadillac Motor Co., is married and has 2 children aged 2 and 6.
From Michigan Death Certificate of Edith BODIN, wife of Oscar Bodin, dau. of Martin & Hulda (Johnson) Nyholm, born 11 June 1888 in Union City, Iowa; died of pneumonia on 25 Oct 1918 in Hamtramack, Wayne County; buried Evergreen Cemetery. Oscar Bodin, informant.
1930 Detroit, Wayne Co., MI: Oscar BODINE 40 MI widowed core maker-pattern shop, Ernest 18 CT electrician
1940 Detroit, Wayne Co., MI: John A. BODINE 52 MI core maker-foundry, Edna 40 MI wife.
John Oscar Bodine registered for the World War II Draft as a resident of Detroit, Michigan. He reported he was born 12 April 1888 in Frankfort, Michigan and named Ernest Bodine as his next of kin.
Obituary, The Times Herald (Port Huron, Mich.) of Saturday, 14 Dec 1963.
ALGONAC---John O. Bodine, 75, of 533 State Street, died Friday in St. Joseph Hospital, Mt. Clemens, where he was a patient since Nov. 5. Mr. Bodine was born April 12, 1888 in Frankfurt, Mich. He and his wife Edna A., were married Dec. 12, 1943 in Detroit. Mr. Bodine was a retired car maker. Mr. Bodine is survived by his widow and a son, Ernest O. Bodine, Detroit. Remains are in Gilbert Funeral Home where services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday. Rev. George H. Fisher, pastor of St. Martin's Lutheran Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery.