Notes for: Albert George Bodine, Sr.

From Ronny Bodine:

On 5 June 1918, Albert George Bodine registered for the World War 1 draft in Pittsburgh, Penn. He stated he was born 19 Jan 1888 in Zanesville, Ohio, worked as a merchant, and was married with two children. Albert George Bodine Jr. held 49 patents involved in dredging, drilling, cutting and pumping.

From Pennsylvania Federal Census Records:
1920 (17 Jan) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County: Albert G. BODINE 30 OH Proprietor-garage, Anna 29 OH wife, Albert G. Jr. 5 PA son, Helen K. 4 PA dau.

1930 (April) Buellton, Santa Barbara Co., CA: Albert G. BODINE 42 OH married @25 merchant, Anna N. 41 OH married @24, Albert G. Jr. 16 PA son, Helen K. 14 PA dau, Ruth A. 3 11/12 CA dau.

1940 Buellton, Santa Barbara Co., CA: Albert G. BODINE 52 OH proprietor retail grocery store, Anna M. 51 OH wife, Helen K. 24 PA dau saleswoman & bookeeper-retail grocery store, Ruth A. 13 CA dau.

From California Death Records:
Albert George Bodine, born 19 Jan 1888 in Ohio; died 8 Oct 1954 in Santa Barbara County.
Anna M. Bodine, born 1 March 1889 in Ohio; died 10 Sept 1960 in Santa Barbara County.

Albert and Anna Bodine were buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Ballard, Santa Barbara County, California.

Obituary, Santa Ynez Valley News (Solvang, CA) of Friday, 15 Oct 1954.
Graveside rites were conducted Monday afternoon at Oak Hill Cemetery for Albert George Bodine, 66, of Buellton, long-time resident of the Valley, who died Friday night in a Santa Barbara Hospital where he had been ill for nine weeks. Rev. Ernest W. Tune, pastor of the Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church, conducted the services. Mr. Bodine was a native of Zanesville, O., and moved with his family to California in 1920. A year later he opened Bodine's General Store. He operated the store continuously until lat year when he sold it to Mr. and Mrs. William FitzGerald. Mr. Bodine is survived by his wife, Anna Minnich Bodine; a son, Albert George Bodine, Jr., Los Angeles; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Carroll of Utah and Miss Ruth Bodine of Los Angeles, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Caylor of Columbus, O., and Mrs. Glenn Buell of Buellton and four grandchildren, Robert George and Jean Helen Carroll and Linda Ann and Albert Jonathan Bodine.

Obituary, Santa Ynez Valley News (Solvang, CA) of Friday, 16 Sept 1960.
Graveside services for Mrs. Anna M. Bodine, 71, of 3040 Paseo del Refugio, Santa Barbara, a former long-time resident of Buellton, were conducted Monday afternoon at Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard with the Rev. Lawrence E. Fisher, minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Santa Barbara, officiating. Mrs. Bodine died Saturday morning in a Santa Barbara Hospital where she had been a patient for three weeks. Mrs. Bodine had been in ill health the past two weeks. She came to Buellton in 1921 with her husband, the late Albert G. Bodine, Sr., from Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Bodine died in 1954. The following year, Mrs. Bodine moved from Buellton to Santa Barbara. Her late husband constructed the grocery store building now housing the Buellton Market at the corner of Highways 150 and 101 in 1921. In that year, Mr. Bodine and his brother-in-law, the late William Budd, Buellton's first postmaster, formed a partnership, with Mr. Budd moving his stock from a store across the street and south of what is now Anderson's Pea Soup Restaurant to the Bodine Building. From 1921 to 1941 the store, which also housed the post office, was known as Budd and Bodine's. The partnership was dissolved in 1941, with Budd moving the post office to a small frame building which now contains the Buellton Gift Shop. The grocery store then became known as Bodine's until 1953 when it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. William FitzGerald. The store was purchased by the present owners, E. Thaine (Eddie) Andersen and Bob Mathiasen last August. Mrs. Bodine was a member of the Women's Home Department of the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau, the Santa Barbara Women's Club, the Little Gardens Club, the Museum of Natural History and the Republican Women's Club. She leaves a son, Albert G. Bodine, Jr., of Sherman Oaks; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Carroll of Santa Barbara and Mrs. John C. Wilson of West Los Angeles; three grandchildren, Linda and John Bodine and Robert Carroll, and a great-grandchild.