Notes for: Helen Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
Helen Bodine, age 22 and single, lived with her mother in Moberly, Randolph County in 1920. The marriage of Oscar Glenn Burton to Miss Helen Bodine at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Ella Bodine, at 910 East McKinsey street, was reported in the Moberly Evening Democrat of 8 March 1920. The marriage was short lived. On 25 Dec 1922 in Moberly, Oscar Burton married Gladys Pearl Sparkman with whom he was living in Moberly in 1930. Helen Bodine Burton never remarried.
From Randolph County, Missouri Marriage Records:
Oscar Glen Burton of Moberly, Randolph County AND Helen Bodine of Moberly were married 7 March 1920 at Moberly by George H. White.
Obituary, Moberly (MO) Monitor-Index of Monday, 31 Oct 1966.
Oscar Glenn Burton, 75, died Friday afternoon at Edmonds, Wash. He was formerly of Moberly. A funeral service will be held there today. The body will be returned to the Million and Greer Funeral Home for visitation at 7 p.m. tomorrow. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Dr. Joseph P. Grant, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will be in charge. Surviving are his wife, Gladys; one brother, W. Arnold Burton, Moberly; five sisters, Mrs. Earl Chismer, Mrs. Erma Ornburn, Mrs. Finley Roberts and Mrs. Eunice Roberts all of Moberly, and Mrs. Joseph Holmes of Detroit, Mich.; two sons, Glenn Jr. of Seattle, Wash., and James of Edmonds, Wash.; one daughter, Mrs. Lora Chadwick, Zenith, Wash.; seven grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Obituary, Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, Mo.) of Tuesday, 1 July 1975.
Mrs. Helen Burton, 77, of 10 Jackson St., died Monday afternoon at Memorial Community Hospital where she had been a patient the last five weeks. She was born Dec. 2,1897, at Salisbury, daughter of William A. and Ella Terry Bodine. She was a graduate of the Moberly public schools and Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville. Mrs. Burton was a teacher in the public school systems at Moberly and Chillicothe. She had served as deputy circuit clerk of Randolph County in Moberly for eight years and also had worked in the Railroad Retirement Office, Washington, D.C. After coming to Jefferson City she worked as a secretary for the Missouri Legislature and later was employed by the Missouri State Highway Department for 30 years until her retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School for more than 30 years, the Dorcas Sunday School Class, the Baptist Women's Organization, the Current Missions Group and the Fellowship Class. Surviving is: One sister, Mrs. W. A. Hayes. Decatur, Ill. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Buescher Memorial Chapel with the Rev. G. Nelson Duke officiating. Burial will be in Oakland
Cemetery, Moberly.
Burials in Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Randolph County, Missouri.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 151139545)
HELEN BURTON Dec. 2, 1897 June 30, 1975