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Note for: Edwina Rosa Shaw, 1871 - 25 Aug 1920
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Christening: Place: Sidney Center, Delaware, NY
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Note for: Gerdon Blair Budine, 2 Sep 1919 - 14 Mar 1997
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Individual Note: CLOSE-UP: Married by Rev. Grant Robinson. Gerdon was a member of the Walton High School Rifle Club in 1936. He graduated from Walton High School with a degree in Vocational Agriculture on 27 June 1939.
Walton Reporter, Jan 4, 1940: Annual ice harvest has started on the Louden pond, South street, Walton, where 10-inch ice is being harvested. Shown hauling cakes on the sled is George Harrington. Feeding ice into the chute is Ogden Foote, while Gerdon Budine pushes ice cakes into the loading canal.
Note written by his wife Anne: "I remember sitting in Smiths hospital on your 21st birthday. Your Dad Leslie passed away that afternoon, Sept. 2, 1940."
His Selective Service System Draft Registration card, issued 22 June 1944, shows he was issued a draft code of 2-C (Agricultural deferment).
Walton Reporter, 1960: Unadilla Couple Hurt; He Gets Summons. Gerdon B. Budine, 41, and his wife, Ann, 40, both of Unadilla, R.D. 1, suffered fractured vertebrae Saturday morning when their car was involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer on Route 7 when both vehicles were headed east. Mr. Budine also received a summons for an unsafe turn which is returnable before Town of Afton Justice Arthur Grover. State police at Sidney said that Mr. Budine was heading east when he attempted to make a left turn just as the rig operated by Earl B. Steele, Clayton, attempted to pass. The tractor-trailer was forced into the guardrails and the Budine car went into a ditch.
LEATHERCRAFT: Walton Reporter, January 1972: Leathercraft Work All Began With a Play Kit. A series of mishaps in his life set Gerdon Budine of Unadilla RD 1 on a course which gave him a new hobby and now a major vocation. Their hobby actually started for the Budines in 1969 when Mr. Budine was laid up for a few months with Meniere’s disease, an ailment affecting the balancing factor of the inner ear. Their daughter, Kay Roof of Sidney Center, bought him a beginner's kit for leather working. On Jan. 28, 1970, Mr. Budine and his wife, Anne, suffered serious injuries in a traffic accident in Afton vicinity which yielded both of them with broken backs. There followed long.....
At first he shunned the kit with the objection that he is “no artist.” But because she cared enough to get it for him he broke into it one day and became a captive artisan. Today Mr. Budine works in leather craft every chance he gets, and with his wife operates Anne’s Gift Shop on the Walton-Sidney road near Sidney Center in a small trailer where is also located his tiny workshop. He sounds like a cowboy when he talks about “pounding leather” but that’s what it amounts to when Gerdon Budine takes a piece of leather, punch and hammer and starts to fashion a handbag or billfold. Anne assists by working with other offerings of the shop--belts, suede leather articles, decorative items. She also does the lacing on the products of her husband’s bench.
Recently, a reporter’s attention was drawn to a handbag which had been crafted from leather. It featured a picture of the former Leslie Budine store and filling station once located the corner of Route 10 and the Bob’s Brook road. It was more realistic than the snapshot from which it was taken because this was Gerdon Budine’s home ground many years ago.
The Budines find that their hobby not only brings in extra income but it leads to new friendships at the art shows they attend. Next year they plan to do some traveling while the one child remaining at home is in Europe. Along with them, naturally, will be a supply of leather articles.
Customers occasionally have strange requests. One wife had “My love to you, honey” stenciled inside a billfold, Another person in the business of raising goats had a goat placed on his billfold; another person not at all related to the first one also requested the goat picture.
He put a picture of a Franklin church on a key case and a member of the church snapped it up almost before it was completed. Some of the customers include work associates in Department 29 at The Bendix Corporation in Sidney, where Mrs. Budine is also employed.
When seen the other day Mr. Budine was working on the first project he has undertaken for himself. His children gave him a mod type wineskin for Christmas. It has a leather surface so it will now have a new covering with pictures of deer and other animals embossed on it. The Christmas rush is over and he can afford to fool around a little with what started as a hobby performed by a reluctant hobbyist.
OBITUARY 1: Bradenton, Florida paper (3/16/1997): Gerdon B. Budine, 77, of Bradenton, died March 14, 1997, in Columbia Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. There will be no visitation. Service will be Monday [March 17] at 11 a.m. at Toale Brothers Funeral Home, 912 53rd Ave. W., Bradenton, the Rev. Carl Fortner officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 20574, Bradenton, Fla., 34204.
Born in Walton, NY, Mr. Budine moved from Walton to Manatee County in 1977. He was a retired machinist for Bendix Electrical Co. Mr. Budine was a Methodist. He is survived by his wife, Anne of Bradenton; four daughters, Anne Simpson of Raleigh, NC, Lucille Dewey and Kathryn King of Sidney Center, NY, and Marian Striesse of Hartwick, NY; two sons, Robert, of Davenport, NY, and John, of Bradenton; a sister, Frances McAdams of Walton, NY; 17 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
OBITUARY 2: Walton Reporter, March 1997: ...He had conducted a dairying business and also had a grocery store on Delaware Street, Walton. Before moving to Florida in the seventies, he conducted a hand-made leather business from his home on the Sidny-Sidney Center road specializing in handbags and billforlds under the name Leather Craft.