JAMES FREDERICK "Jimmy, Jim Bee" BORDUA

Born: October 3, 1928    Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut
Died: May 16, 2012    Arlington, Tarrant, Texas


Parents:
 
Occupation:
 
Military
Service:
 
Marriage:
 
 
Alexis George Bordua
Lillian Mary Henrietta Augustus Legge
 
Locksmith
 
U.S. Marine Corps
Korean War
 
Phyllis J.

 
Jim Bee Bordua 

Children: Bordua    
       
2nd Marriage: Mary T.
   
Children: Daniel "Dan" James    
  Kathy    

Divorced: Sept. 17, 1982
  Dallas, Texas
   
3rd Marriage: Anna Louise "Louise" (Barker) Weis
  Nov. 21, 1982
  , Tarrant, Texas
   
Notes: At the time of the April 15, 1930 federal census, James F. was 1 year 5 months old and living with his parents and
  eight siblings at 67 Spring Street, Rockville, Tolland county, CT. His father was working as a machinist in a woolen mill.
 
At the time of the Apr. 2, 1940 U.S. Federal census, James was 11 years old and living with his parents and three siblings in the family home valued at $1,500 located at 67 Spring St., Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut. His mother, father and his 21-year-old brother Robert all had completed their education through the 8th grade. Seventeen-year-old sister Mildred had completed two years of high school, 13-year-old sister Dorothy was in the 7th grade, and James himself was in the 5th grade of elementary school. His father was employed as a millwright in a woolen mill, working 40 hours during the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940, and having worked 52 weeks in 1939, earning $1,500. Brother Robert was employed in the wash room of a woolen mill, working 40 hours the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940; he worked 48 weeks in 1939, earning $1,000. His mother stated she had been married once only when she was 22 years old and that she was the mother of a total of four children. She did not have a Federal Social Security Number. She said both her parents were born in Connecticut.
 
Jim was a Korean War veteran, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Jim had many successful careers in his life. He retired from his locksmith business about six years before his death.

Ancestry: The Bordua Line
   
Obituary of James Frederick Bordua

Robert Bordua and his younger brother, Jimmy.
Jimmy and his older brother, Robert Bordua

Robert Bordua with his family members.
Standing: Robert Bordua
Seated, left to right: Dorothy, Lillian, Alexis and James Bordua with cat
Circa 1936

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