Notes for: Beulah West Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

From Baptismal Records of Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church, Camden, NJ.
Bapt. 3 July 1910, Beulah West Bodine, infant, child of Stephan W. & Bessie M. Bodine.

1930 (8 April) Camden, Camden Co., NJ: Edward HADDON 52 England Bricklayer, Bessie 39 NJ wife, Beulah BODINE 20 NJ step-dau Stenographer.

The 1931 Camden City Directory lists Beulah Bodine living with her mother and stepfather on Kenwood Avenue and working as a clerk for the Victor Co. and the 1940 directory living on Glenwood Avenue working as a stenographer.

From New York City Marriage Records:
Joseph E. Kauch Jr., 24, single, born in Philadelphia, Penn., son of Joseph Kauck & Alice Forman AND Beulah W. Bodine, 22, single, born in Camden, NJ, dau. of Steve Bodine & Bessie Luker, were married 14 Nov 1931 in Manhattan.

Joseph and Beulah appear to have separated as in 1940, Joseph E. Kauck, 33, single, was living with his widowed mother, Alice W. Kauck, in Camden, NJ.

Obituary, Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) of 29 Jan 1957.
Joseph E. Kauck, 49, of 931 N. 20th St., died today in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. He was born in Philadelphia, but had lived in Camden most of his life. He was a draftsman with RCA where he had been employed 28 years. Surviving are two sisters, Emma M. and Doris M., both of Camden. Services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper st., where friends may call Thursday night. Burial will be in Mt. Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia.