Notes for: Charles Augustus Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
1st marriage--1916--MYRTLE ETHLYNE COLBY.
From Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Marriage Records:
C. A. Bodine AND M. Ethelyne Colby were married 1 June 1916. [Note: As Charles Bodine and the Colbys were all residents of Oklahoma City, that is likely where they married.]
Charlie Bodine, age 17, lived 1910 with his mother in Oklahoma City where he worked as a clerk in a candy store. On 5 June 1917, Charles Augustus Bodine registered for the World War I draft in Oklahoma City. He reported he was married, had one child and worked as a window decorator for S. H. Kress & Co. In 1920, Charles, Ethelyn and their son Philip, lived in the home of Ethelyn's mother Florence Coley [sic-Colby] in Oklahoma City.
On 22 Aug 1925 in Elkus, Canadian County, Oklahoma, Myrtle Ethelyn Bodine married Louis F. Pfotenhauer with whom she was living in April 1930 in Oklahoma City with her 12-year old son Philip Bodine.
From Social Security Records:
Ethlyne Pfotenhauer was born 21 Sept 1893 and died May 1968. Her last residence was Oklahoma City, OK.
From Oklahoma Death Records:
Ethlyene Pfotenhauer died 9 May 1968 in Oklahoma County.
Burials in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 50490259)
ETHLYNE C. PFOTENHAUER Sept. 21, 1893 May 8, 1968
2nd marriage--1926--ESTELLE HIGHTOWER.
From Broward County, Florida Marriage Records:
C. A. Bodine, 32, of Miami AND Estelle Hightower Sprayberry, 29, were married 28 April 1926 by Alfred Evendan, Pastor, Park Street Temple, Fort Lauderdale. [Note: Estelle Hightower, daughter of John Walter and Margaret Cornelia (Dodson) Hightower, was married 1stly to Camden Marion Sprayberry (1886-1921).]
In 1930, Charles Bodine lived with his 2nd wife, Estelle, in Miami, Dade County, Florida where he worked as a real estate speculator.
1940 Stockbridge, Henry Co., GA: Chas. A. BODINE 46 OK, Estelle H. 46 GA wife, T.R. HIGHTOWER 41 GA brother-in-law single mail carrier.
Burials in Stockbridge City Cemetery, Stockbridge, Henry County, Georgia.
(For a grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 11540264)
Estelle Hightower Bodine 1894-1941
3rd marriage--after 1941--MARY LOU MEAGHER.
From State of Texas Certificate of Death No. 1968-74237 for Mary Lou Bodine: Born 5 Nov 1902 in Okla, daughter of Mike Meagher, died 9 Oct 1968 in Arlington, Tarrant County and buried in Moore Memorial Gardens, Arlington. Informant was C. A. Bodine.
Obituary, Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram of Thurs., 10 Oct 1968.
Mrs. Mary Lou Bodine, 65, 2421 Red Wright Rd., Arlington, died Wednesday after short illness. Mrs. Bodine was born in Indian Territory, Okla., and had been Arlington resident 12 years. Member Cliff Temple Baptist Church, Dallas. Survivors: Husband, C. A. Bodine, Arlington; daughter, Miss D. H. Holt, Arlington; sister, Miss Bertha Vail, Emory, Texas; 3 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren. Arrangements pending Hugh M. Moore & Sons, 1219 N. Davis Drive, Arlington.
Obituary, The Dallas (TX) Morning News of Friday, 16 Oct 1970.
BODINE, Charles, 76, 112 NW 2nd, Grand Prairie, Texas. Passed away Friday evening. Resident of Arlington for last 10 years. Survived by sisters, Mrs. Bessie Holt, Arlington, Texas, Mrs. Ora Parrott, Dallas. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, MOORE FUNERAL CHAPEL, Dr. M. W. Conditt officiating. Interment Laurel Land. [Note: He passed away Wednesday, not Friday evening.]
From the Texas Death Ceretificate of Charles A. Bodine, widower, of Grand Prairie, TX, born 23 Nov 1893 in OKlahoma, son of W. T. & Louise (Button) Bodine; died 14 Oct 1970 in Euless, Tarrant County, buried Laurel Land Cemetery, Dallas, TX. Mrs. Bessie Holt, informant.