Lee Roy Bodily of Mendon, Utah— Died Wednesday, June 10th, 1998, at the Logan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born to Ned James Bodily and Irene Jane Barrett Bodily on March 18th, 1955, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was educated in the Cache County School District. He was active in government and community affairs. Lee served an L.D.S. mission to Anaheim, California, Mission. He was an active member of the L.D.S. church, serving in many positions, including executive secretary, second counselor in a branch presidency, scout master, Sunday school teacher, and Blazer leader. Lee attended Utah State University, where he was very active in student government and student productions. He was awarded the ASUSU Distinguished Service Award and ASUSU Innovation Award. He was also active in student productions where he helped many years with the Glen Miller Production and performed with the Sun Valley Caroler's for eleven years as Santa Claus. He graduated from the L.D.S. Institute of Religion and from Utah State University with a Bachelor's Degree in secondary education with Biology composite. He was a research assistant for the range department at U.S.U., doing research on the effects that grazing cattle had on the above-ground and below-ground growth of range grasses. Lee was a strong supporter of the Boy Scouts of America programs, working many summers at summer camps in different positions such as: merit badge counselor, commissioner, camp ranger, program director, and for two years a camp director of Aspen Ridge on the Hull Valley Reservation. He also helped run the winter camps at Camp Wapatee for many years. Lee married Nancy Norman on January 18th, 1984, in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. They have four sons; Micah James Bodily, Jacob Lee Bodily, Forrest Lee Bodily, and Dakota Matthew Bodily. Lee's professional career had a lot of rewarding diversity in it. He taught at Jefferson Middle School in the Preston, Idaho, school district. He worked for the Education Department at U.S.U. evaluating student teachers working on their teaching degrees in the sciences. An especially rewarding experience that he had was to work for Rivendell of Utah, which is a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents with behavioral disorders. He was originally hired as a teacher/counselor to work with adolescent's on behavior modification and he became one of the head counselors over the children's unit, working with young children with behavioral problems. He taught science in the Logan, Utah, school district at both Logan High School and Mount Logan Middle School. Lee had the opportunity to go to Alaska and work with the Inupiat Eskimo people in Kotzebue, teaching at the middle school and high school. Kotzebue is thirty miles above the Arctic Circle and borders the Chukchi Sea. There he started a tanning and fur buying and selling business. Two years later he went and helped establish an alternative school in Takotna, Alaska, where he was the only high school teacher in the K-12 school. Besides teaching the regular curriculum, Lee started classes in taxidermy and trapping, with a variety of other programs like meat cutting and wrapping, writing grants for fish studies, doing studies on plant regrowth rates in burned areas, and students picking individual projects and working all year on these projects. He worked for the Klamath County School District at Bonanza, Oregon at the K-12 school, teaching a variety of science subjects. throughout his career, Lee started and ran many successful science fairs in different school districts. On becoming ill, Lee was teaching at A.C. Young Intermediate School in Brigham City, Utah, in which he taught sixth and seventh grade science. Lee was a lover of nature and all of god's creations. He enjoyed being with his family fishing, camping, hiking, and hunting. Lee is survived by his mother, Irene Jane Barrett Bodily, Mendon, Utah; his siblings, James J. (Connie) Bodily, Millville, Utah, Larry Ray (Donnette) Bodily, Wellsville, Utah, Mrs. Scott (Jolene) Cressall Clinton, Utah, and Mrs. Michael (LaNa) Maughan, Draper, Utah; his four sons and their mother Nancy, Paradise, Utah, Micah James Bodily, Jacob Lee Bodily, Forrest Lee Bodily, and Dakota Matthew Bodily. He is preceded in death by his father, Ned James Bodily. Funeral services will be held at the Mendon L.D.S. Chapel, 20 North 100 West, Mendon, Utah. Friends may call from six to eight p.m. Friday at the Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah, and one hour prior to funeral at the church. Burial will be in the Mendon Cemetery. ~The Herald Journal, June 11th, 1998, page 4.