Ned James Bodily ~ Veteran WW II

Mendon, Utah— Ned James Bodily, 52 died Saturday at a Logan hospital, following an extended illness. He was born December 23rd, 1925, to Joseph Austin and Rhoda Maria Page Bodily in Fairview, Idaho. On June 2nd, 1950, he married Irene Barrett, in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. He attended elementary school in Fairview, was the class valedictorian at Preston High School. He received his master's degree from Utah State University and did many hours of post graduate work. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Delta Phi and held offices in Phi Delta Kappa fraternity. He had won several journalism contests. During World War II he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a pharmacists mate 3rd class. An active member of the L.D.S. Church, he served as a missionary in the Western States Mission from 1946 to 1948. He was a High Priest in the Mendon Ward. He had served as teacher development leader, elders' quorum president, financial clerk, superintendent in the Sunday school, Sunday school teacher, and counselor in the Logan Stake Sunday school presidency. He had been active in the Boy Scouts of America, having served as an assistant scout master and on various committees. An educator, he had taught in the English department at Bountiful High School for two years, had been principal of the Mendon Elementary School for ten years. He taught at the University of Nebraska and worked on the Nebraska English curriculum. He served ten years as principal of North Park School. He was principal of the Smithfield Summit School when he took a medical retirement. He helped develop the tutorial program in the Cache School District, was a charter member and helped start the Cache-Rich School Credit Union and had served as an officer in that organization for many years. He served as an officer in the Cache Principals' Association, the State Principals' Association and served in the Cache Education Association. he held a seat on the Mendon City Recorder. He headed the Mendon City Bicentennial Committee and the July 24 committee. He played in the Cache Valley Baseball League, representing Fairview and Mendon. He started Little League Baseball in Mendon and served as a coach for eight years. He had also coached in the valley's commercial league. Surviving are his widow, three sons and two daughters, James J., Logan; Larry R., Lee R., Jolene and LaNa, all of Mendon; two grandchildren. Also surviving are his mother of Fairview, two brothers and five sisters, Earl Bodily, Clearfield; Mrs. Leon (Afton) Corbridge, Logan; Mrs. Alvaro (Venetta) Burbank and Mrs. Morris (Janece) Gregory, both of Mapleton; Mrs. Ned (Emma) McCracken, Garth Bodily and Mrs. Edison (Freda) Buckles, all of Ogden. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday noon in the Mendon Ward Chapel under the direction of Bishop Stanton S. Barrett. Friends may call at Cranney Mortuary Tuesday from seven to nine p.m. and again at the Mendon Ward Church one hour prior to services. Interment will be in Mendon City Cemetery. ~The Herald Journal, September 18th, 1978, page 4.