Notes for: Willis Ramsey Bodine, Sr.
The following came from the Internet at a site by Jimmy Kerr at www.mccserve.com/ genealogy/ kerr1/:
From: Willis Bodine [wrbodine at ufl.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 5:35 AM
To: hal at iglobal.net
Subject: My Surname in Your Genealogy Database
My mother's name was Freda Serena Buchan. Alma Buchan Babb (not Alma Buchanan) succeeded in tracing her family back to Joachim Friedrich Reinke, born 1720 in Germany, and similarly to 18th-century roots for the Lohmann family who came to Texas in 1842. If you will give me a valid E-mail address or a mailing address, we can be in touch.
Willis Bodine wrbodine at ufl.edu 3838 SW 4th Place Gainesville, FL 32607-2713
From Ronny Bodine:
Willis Bodine, age 14, was living 1920 with his paternal grandparents in San Augustine County. The Galveston "Daily News" of 19 Aug 1935, in an article about Willis Bodine, wrote that he came to Galveston six or seven years previously as an engineer in the valuation department of the Santa Fe Railway. When he lost his job through forced reductions, he went to the University of Texas and majored in physical education and two years later was employed in the Galveston public schools as an arithmetic teacher and as an assistant football coach. In the summer of 1935 he was accepted as head of the physical education department of University High School in Austin. Later he earned a Ph.D. and joined the Health and Physical Education Department at East Texas State Teachers College.
Freda (Buchan) Bodine is the daughter of Fredrick and Emelia (Reinke) Buchan.
Obituary, The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun of 19 July 1998.
Willis Ramsey Bodine of Austin, Texas, died Monday at his home. He was 92. Mr. Bodine was a health education teacher and a Texas State Department of Health consultant to public schools. Born in San Augustine County, Texas, he was a fifth-generation Texan with degrees from Texas A&M College and the University of Texas. Mr. Bodine was president of the Austin Area Garden Council and a charter member of the Wilshire Presbyterian Church, where he was a ruling elder and a clerk of the session. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Freda Serena Buchan. Survivors include a son, Willis Ramsey Bodine Jr. of Gainesville; a daughter; a sister; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Expressions of sympathy may be made as donations to the Memorial Fund of the Austin Area Garden Center or to the Genesis Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund, both in Austin.
Burials in Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetery and Mausoleum, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
(For grave marker photos see Find a Grave Memeorial No. 88689001)
BODINE Willis Ramsey 1905--1998 Freda Buchan 1909--1991