Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bodman, Chester L. 1962
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 8 Oct 1962

Ionia Man Is Dead Of Injuries

Chester Bodman, 54-year old Ionia factory worker who lives at 315 Silver street,
is dead as result of an accident in which he was thrown from a doodle bug, Ionia
city police reported Monday.  Information was lacking and Chief of Police
Clarence Aldrich said he was investigating.

First information of the accident came when Ionia County Memorial hospital
attaches informed state police that Bodman had been badly hurt and brought to
the Ionia Hospital Saturday evening.  He received first aid and was transferred
to Blodgett hospital in Grand Rapids.  He died Sunday evening.

The accident was believed to have occurred at 11:20 p.m. Saturday in the
driveway of Bodman’s Silver street home.

Chief Aldrich, who said he was continuing investigation of the accident, said
the incident took place at the corner of Bayard and Silver streets, thus making
it a traffic accident and another death on Ionia county highways.  It was the
first fatal traffic accident in Ionia city in 1962.

According to Aldrich Bodman and his wife, Mary, were riding on the doodle-bug
owned and driven by Fred Chapman of 258 Adams street.  His age was not
available.  Chapman is also an Ionia factory laborer.  Aldrich said Mrs. Bodman
had told city officers after the accident that when Chapman drove into the
Bodman yard it was discovered Bodman had fallen off at the corner when the
vehicle, which is a cut down car used to truck logs, turned the corner.  The
vehicle had no license plates.

Aldrich said he did not know where the trio had been, but hospital records show
Bodman was brought to the hospital at 9:15 p.m. and the accident probably
occurred about 9 p.m.  He said Bodman’s injuries, which included severe
lacerations of the lower abdomen, indicated he must have fallen under the
machine and that some sharp object cut him.  His lower abdomen was literally
torn apart, Aldrich declared.

Bodman was born May 19, 1908, in Chippewa county, the son of James E. and Edith
Houcks Bodman and came to Ionia at the age of 19.  H was married to Mary Nelson,
June 15, 1940 in Ionia and had lived at the present residence the past 15 years.

Survivors are his wife, Mary, five sons, Roy, Robert, Richard, Harold and
Chester, Jr., and three daughters, Shirley, Carol and Penny Lee, all at home;
three brothers, Harold and William Bodman of Evart and Monte of Pontiac, six
sisters, Mary and Violet Bodman of Lapeer, Mrs. Leona Ward and Mrs. Ellen Antor
of Howard City, Mrs. Ruby Gould of Higgins lake and Mrs. Dorothy Parker of Evart.

Funeral service will be conducted at Myers funeral home Wednesday at 2 p.m.. 
The Rev. Paul Knaak of Lincoln Avenue Baptist church will officiate and
interment will be at Highland Park cemetery.


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