Notes for: Odessa H. Bordine
From Ronny Bodine:
From Parsons (KS) Daily Eclipse, of Friday, 5 June 1914:
Marriage Licenses. R. I. Willis, 28 AND Odessa H. Bordine, 27, both of Pittsburg.
1920 Kiowa, Pittsburg Co., OK: John E. ALLEN 43 IL bank president, Edna A. 36 KS, Berry E. 8 OK son, Francis 7 OK dau, Glenn C. 3 OK son, Dorothy 8/12 OK dau, Richard WILLIS 34 KY brother-in-law, Odessa WILLIS 33 KS wife.
On 18 Dec 1929, Mrs. Odessa H. Willis was appointed Postmaster
1930 Pittsburg, Pittsburg Co., OK: Richard WILLIS 43 KS farm manager, Odesa 43 KS wife.
Burials in Oak Hill Memorial Park, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 16783378)
RICHARD I. WILLIS Sept. 4, 1885 June 28, 1934
1940 Pittsburg, Pittsburg Co., OK: Odesa WILLIS 53 KS widow Post Master
On 18 Dec 1929, Mrs. Odessa H. Willis was appointed Postmaster of the Pittsburg Post Office and served until retirement 30 Oct 1956.
From the Missouri Death Certificate of Odessa H. Willis, widow of Richard I. Willis, born 31 July 1886 in Ulysses, Kansas, dau. of Jacob & Sarah (Carroll) Bordine, died 11 June 1967 in Kansas City, Jackson County, buried Green Lawn Cemetery. Berry Allen of Kansas City, informant.
From Social Security Records:
Odessa H. Willis was born 31 July 1886 and died 15 June 1967.