Notes for: Vera Mae Dunning

From: Ronny Bodine
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020
Subject: Re: Harold Wesley Bodine

Hello Stephen,

Dave Bodine copied your email to me and see my reply to him below. I looked a bit further and thought I would give you some leads to follow up on that might lead to identifying Vera.

So, Vera was living in 1940 as the wife of Harold Bodine with two children from a previous marriage, Richard and Carol Ann. I find that her first husband was Elwyn Maple Abraham, born 24 Aug 1912, died 9 May 1996 and buried in Dunlap Cemetery, Rose Hill, Butler County, Kansas with his 2nd wife, Margaret Berlin Beard 1919-2002, whom he married 1942 in Eastland Co., Texas. They appear in the March 1953 census of Butler, Hickory County, Kansas as E. Maple Abraham 40, Margaret 33, Richard E. 20, Carol Ann 17, Michael 5, Stephen A. 3, Belinda 2.

Son Richard was Richard Elwyn Abraham, born 16 Jan 1933 and died 28 May 1983 in Olympia, Thurston Co., Washington and is buried in the same cemetery as his parents. He married Carol J. Brie 1955 in San Diego, CA.
Daughter Carol Ann Abraham married John Walter Fowler, 18, of Waynoka, Woods Co., OK on 28 Nov 1953 in Woodward, Woods County, Oklahoma when her father Elwyn M. Abraham gave his permission for his 17-year old daughter, Carol Abraham of Leon, Butler Co., KS, to marry. John Walter Fowler was born 5 Jan 1936 in Missouri and died 10 Aug 1995 in Bakersfield, Kern County, California.

Perhaps further searching will turn up a record that names Vera as wife of Elwyn and mother of Richard and Carol. If so, please let us know so we can better ID Vera.

Good luck,

Ronny Bodine