Notes for: Grover ("Junior") Cleveland Bodine, Jr.
Grover was still alive as of December 2000. Bridget Bodine spoke with him on the phone about his family. Bridget said he was 85 years old.
I later found this online:
Grover C. Bodine Jr., 88 years old
Published in the Courier News on June 12, 2004
RARITAN -- Grover C. Bodine Jr., age 88 years, of Raritan Township, died June 3, 2004.
Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Monday in the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main St., Flemington. Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Ringoes. There will be no calling hours.
Memorial contributions may be made to Elks Handicapped Childrens Fund, P.O. Box 261, Flemington, NJ 08822. Please visit www.holcomefisher.com for further information.
from the Courier News.
I later found another obituary:
BODINE Grover: age 88, reported on 6/10/2004 in the Hunterdon County Democrat. Died 6/6/2004 in Raritan Township NJ. Born in Ringoes. This is somewhat different from the one above.
From Ronny Bodine:
Obituary, The Evening Times (Trenton, N.J.) of 4 Sept 1975.
FLEMINGTON--Services for Mrs. Kathryn E. Bodine, 59, of Kuhl Road, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street. Mrs. Bodine died Wednesday at Hunterdon Medical Center. She was born in Mercer County and lived in Flemington most of her life. Surviving are her husband, Grover Bodine Jr., her mother, Mrs. Mary Holcombe, of Trenton; three brothers, Charles, Orville and Frank Holcombe, all of Hopewell and several nieces and nephews. The Rev. H. W. R. Horsfield, pastor of the Kirkpatrick memorial Presbyterian Church of Ringoes, will officiate. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Ringoes. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Flemington.
Obituary, Hunterdon County Democrat (Flemington, N.J.) of 10 June 2004.
RARITAN TWP. - Grover C. Bodine Jr. died Thursday, June 6, 2004 at the Hunterdon Care Center in Raritan Township. He was 88. Born in Ringoes to Grover C. and Agnes Hampton Bodine, he lived in Hunterdon all his life. He was a farmer and was later employed by Kuhl Corp. in Raritan Township. He graduated from Flemington High School in 1934. Mr. Bodine was a World War II veteran of the Navy. He was a member of the Flemington American Legion and the Flemington Elks Lodge. His wife, Kathryn Holcombe Bodine, died in 1975. Graveside services in Union Cemetery, Ringoes, will be announced by the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home of Flemington, NJ. There will be no calling hours. Visit holcombefisher.com for details.
It should be noted whereas the foregoing newspaper obituary reported his death on 6 June 2004, the SSDBI gives the date as 3 June 2004.