Notes for: Lovelace Dugan Bodine, III

He was killed in an airplane crash.

From Ronny Bodine:

From The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) of 21 Aug 1952:
Reporting the marriage on 13 Aug in the Bedford Methodist Church of Lt. Lovelace D. Bodine, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lovelace D. Bodine of Bloomfield AND the daughter [who is actually not named] of Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Garriott of Bedford. The Rev. W. B. Garriott of Flemingsburg, the bride's uncle, performed the ceremony.

From Texas Death Records:
Lovelace Dugan Bodine Jr., born 17 Feb 1924; died 27 March 1958 in Bridgeport, Wise County when a plane he was co-piloting collided with another military aircraft.

From: Abilene Reporter News (Abilene, Texas) of 28 March 1958:
Abstracted: Capt. Bodine was the co-pilot of a C-124 Globemaster from Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, Utah when it collided in mid-air with a C-119 cargo plane from Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Texas. All 18 crew and passengers aboard the two planes died.

Burials in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bloomfield, Nelson County.
(Find A Grave Memorial # 54193596)
BODINE Lovelace D. III Feb. 17, 1924 Mar. 27, 1958 Emily H. Oct. 13, 1918 Jan. 22, 1980

Obituary, The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, Ala.) of 25 Sept 2004.
Emma "Bobbie" Florence Garriott Clark of Gray, La., died Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, in Gray, La. She was 75. Graveside services will be held 1 p.m. today, Sept. 25, 2004, at Old Tabernacle Cemetery, New Brockton, Ala. Burial will follow. The family will receive friends from 9 until 11 a.m. today, Sept. 25, at Searcy Funeral Home. Searcy Funeral Home, (334) 347-2517, is in charge of the arrangements.