HAZEL BARBARA BODE
AUGUST 23, 1895 TO OCTOBER 9, 1960

Hazel Barbara Bode, the second child  born to Dietrich Adam and Elisabeth Hauck Bode, was on August 23, 1895 in Youngstown, Ohio.  Hazel was a twin.  Her twin sister was named Helen Elisabeth Bode.  

Hazel attended the schools in the Youngstown system.  After her graduation, she attended a specialty nursing school whereby she graduated with a certificate or degree in Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN.)  She worked in Youngstown in this profession from the time of her graduation until  she decided to move to Cleveland in 1925 to continue  her career when she was at the age of thirty five years old.

She made trips back to Youngstown for vacations and weekends and usually stayed with her half sister, Anna Louise Bode Griffiths.  The address for these stays was the old Bode home at 431 Myrtle Avenue and the Griffith’s home on Bellevue Avenue.  She may have stayed with her sister, Helen Elisabeth Bode Carroll, when she and her family lived in the Youngstown area.  

Hazel never learned to drive a car and never owned one to my knowledge.  She used public transportation such as busses, trains and taxi cabs.

Her primary nursing jobs in Cleveland were in the care of older people.  In some cases, she spent several  years with a  patient.  I guess they either got better or passed away.

Hazel was thin and petite.  I would guess her height at about five foot two or three inches tall.

Somewhere she picked up a healthy sense of humor.  She would get right in the middle when cracking jokes or badgering Oscar and Tommy Bode.  She also would tear into Uncle John Griffiths when she thought he needed it.

I remember her well from my youth.  I must have been in my early teens.  Later when Pauline and I moved to Idlewood Road in Austintown, we had her down at our home for a dinner.  It was fun to listen to her.  

A bad habit that she picked up over the years was cigarette smoking.  At times she could be a chain smoker.  She had a chronic smoker hack and a throaty husky voice.

She was an avid reader of books.  Today, I don’t know whether she enjoyed romantic novels, history, or just plain trash books that are popular with many people.

Hazel never married.

HAZEL BARBARA BODE
 DIES ON
OCTOBER 9, 1960

Miss Hazel Barbara Bode,  64, of 2659 E. 121st Street, Cleveland, Ohio,  a former Youngstown resident, died of a heart ailment at 1 a.m. Sunday October 9, 1960 in Benjamin Rose Hospital in Cleveland.

Miss Bode was born Aug. 23, 1895, in Youngstown, a daughter of Dietrich and  Elisabeth Hauck Bode and lived here until moving to Cleveland in 1925.

She leaves two sisters, Mrs. C. B. Bryant of Buffalo, New York and Mrs. John Griffiths of Youngstown and three brothers, Oscar of Kinsman, and Carl  and Thomas, both of  Youngstown.

Funeral  services will be held at 1: 30 p.m. Wednesday at the Shriver-Allison South Side Funeral Home, where friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.  Calling hours also will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Millard, and Son & Raper Co. Fairhill Funeral Home on East Blvd., Cleveland.