Notes for: William Chester Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

1940 Hodgeman Co., KS: CHESNEY, Ralph L. 52 OH Wheat Farmer, Edith 59 OH sister, Ruth 41 KS sister, William BODINE 20 KS nephew Student-High School.

From Social Security Applications and Claims:
William Chester Bodine applied for a SSN in August 1938 and reported he was born 11 May 1919 in Dodge City, Kansas, son of John W. & Bertha (McGill) Bodine. He died 30 March 1988. [Note: McGill is incorrect as Bertha, born Dec 1894 in Kansas, was living with her parents Thomas W. & Eva L. Chesney in Sawlog, Hodgeman County, Kansas in 1900.]

Lillie (Farah) Bodine is the daughter of George and Violet (Randall) Farah. William Bodine was buried in Covington Memorial Gardens, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.

From Indiana Death Certificate of William Bodine, husband of Lillie M. Farah, born 11 May 1919 in Newton, Kansas, son of John William & Bertha (Chesney) Bodine, died 30 March 1988 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, and buried in Covington Memorial Gardens. Informant was Lillie M. Bodine of Covington.

Obituary, The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) of 16 April 2017
LILLIE MAY BODINE, 92, passed away Monday, March 27, 2017. Born in Nazareth, Palestine (Israel), Lillie had been a resident of Fort Wayne since 1944. She was a member of Northside Missionary Church. Surviving are her sons, William J. (Deborah) Bodine of Slidell La., Robert E. Bodine of Ft. Myers, Fla., John D. (Debbie) Bodine of Columbus, Ind., Philip W. (Carin) Bodine of Rocklin, Calif., and Edward G. (Rebeccah) Bodine of Carmel Ind.; five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Bodine. A Celebration service is noon Saturday, April 22, 2017, at Lester's Banquet Hall, 1502 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne, with visitation from 11 a.m. to noon. Memorials to the Lillie Bodine Memorial Fund, World Partners, PO Box 9333, Fort Wayne, IN 46899-9333 or https://wpartners.org/go/volunteers/ DONATE/VCODE/ Lillie Bodine Memorial. Arrangements by D.O. McComb & Sons Lakeside Park Funeral Home, 1140 Lake Ave.