Notes for: Hazel A. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
1910 (19 April) Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., CT: Albert BODINE 39 MI married1-13 years Store Keeper, Emily J. 39 MI wife married1-13 years 3 children born/3 living, Hazel A. 12 CT dau, Bernice E. 5 CT, Elizabeth A. 4 CT.
1920 (5 Jan) Peoria State Hospital, Limestone, Peoria Co., I: Hazel ADAIR 22 Inmate married musician
The Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois first mentions "Hazel Adair" on 29 Nov 1920 as a musician playing the cello.
Mrs. Hazel B. Adair, a clerk at Kresge, is listed in the 1920 city directory for Bloomington, Illinois. Hazel B. Adair, widow of Walter J., teacher Bloom School of Music, is listed in the 1922 and 1923 Bloomington, Illinois City Directory.
From Illinois Death Records:
Hazel Bodine Adair died 3 April 1923 in Bloomington, McLean County, aged 25. Wife of Walter J. Adair, dau. of Albert J. & Emily J. (Adams) Bodine.
Burials in Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan.
Hazel Bodine Adair 1898-1923
Obituary, The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.) of 4 April 1923.
Mrs. Hazel Adair Bodine [sic], a well known musician of the city was found dead at her home, 201 Denver street last evening about 5 o'clock by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Bodine, who had been away from home during the greater portion of the day. The house was filled with fumes from a gas stove and Mrs. Adair was evidently overcome by the poisonous vapors. She suffered a nervous breakdown some time ago. Coroner Lee McReynolds was notified and will hold an inquest today to determine more fully just how she met death. She was born October 3, 1898 at Bridgeport, Connecticut. She studied music at New York and held several important positions there. Since coming to Bloomington she has been prominent in musical circles, being one of the best cellists ever heard here. She was an active member of the Amateur Musical Club and had played in the orchestra at the Majestic theatre for two years. She leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Bodine and two sisters Elizabeth and Bernice, both at home.
NOTES FOR WALTER J. ADAIR.
Considering that Hazel Adair was institutionalized likely soon after her marriage, her husband perhaps chose to distance himself and thereafter Hazel, upon release, referred to herself as a widow as so noted in the Bloomington city directories. A likely candidate for her husband, and assumed to be such here, is Walter John Adair, born March 1895 in Illinois and living with his parents in June 1900 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. He was yet living with his parents there in April 1910, aged 15. On 3 Dec 1924 in Duval County, Florida he married Lucile J. Pillault (born 1898 in Connecticut) with whom he lived in April 1930 in Jacksonville, Duval County, where he died 2 Jan 1956 and was buried there in Oaklawn Cemetery and where Lucile died in 1980 and was buried.