Notes for: Patricia L. Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

Obituary, the Anchorage Daily News (AK), 11 July 2000.
TRISIA BODINE-EDWARDS, 41, committed suicide July 1, 2000, when she jumped from the Sixth Avenue parking garage. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Kehl's Forest Lawn Chapel. Deacon Dennis Foreman of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church will officiate. Ms. Bodine-Edwards was born March 24, 1959, in Visalia, Calif. She came to Alaska in 1976 and was a 1978 graduate of Service High School. She had attended two years of college. In the early 1980s, she worked on the North Slope and had been a legal secretary. She had volunteered with South Central Counseling and had traveled to Juneau to testify on behalf of mentally ill patients for the legislature to appropriate money. Her family wrote: "She was a person society kept taking things away from because of her mental illness. It started with her son and now her life." She is survived by her son, Mahlon "Cookie" Ray Edwards III, whereabouts unknown; parents, Shirley and Dennis Bodine of Red Bluff, Calif.; five brothers, Bruce Bodine of Anchorage, Andy Bodine of Alabama, Don Bodine of Corning, Calif., and Steve Bodine and Doug Bodine, both of California. The family has requested that memorial contributions be directed to the Brother Francis Shelter, 1021 E. Third Ave., Anchorage 99501.