Dorothy (Sears) Bodenhorn, 83, 2317 Jackson St., died Thursday afternoon at the Countryside Manor Nursing Home following a brief illness. She was born in Madison County and had lived here all of her life. She began teaching in 1920 at Huffman School and later taught at Epworth School and the Lapel schools before teaching in the Anderson Community Schools. She retired in 1965. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lapel and Lapel Eastern Star Chapter 457, the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the Association of University Women.
She is survived by her husband David; a stepdaughter, Norma (Bodenhorn) Wells of Muncie; a stepson, Kenneth E. Bodenhorn of Lapel; a sister, Anna McClintock of Logansport; five step-grandchildren; a step-great-grandson; and several nieces and nephews.
Committal services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Anderson Memorial Park cemetery chapel with the Rev. Joseph Wagner officiating. Burial will follow. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until noon Saturday at the Fisher Brothers Funeral Home in Lapel.
Obituary is from the Anderson Daily Bulletin, Friday 2 Jan 1987.
Dorothy (Sears) Bodenhorn, 83, 2317 Jackson St., died Thursday afternoon at the Countryside Manor Nursing Home following a brief illness. She was born in Madison County and had lived here all of her life. She began teaching in 1920 at Huffman School and later taught at Epworth School and the Lapel schools before teaching in the Anderson Community Schools. She retired in 1965. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lapel and Lapel Eastern Star Chapter 457, the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the Association of University Women.
She is survived by her husband David; a stepdaughter, Norma (Bodenhorn) Wells of Muncie; a stepson, Kenneth E. Bodenhorn of Lapel; a sister, Anna McClintock of Logansport; five step-grandchildren; a step-great-grandson; and several nieces and nephews.
Committal services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Anderson Memorial Park cemetery chapel with the Rev. Joseph Wagner officiating. Burial will follow. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until noon Saturday at the Fisher Brothers Funeral Home in Lapel.
Obituary is from the Anderson Daily Bulletin, Friday 2 Jan 1987.
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