WWII Hero Bodeker’s “Choice”: Exhume His Wife’s Body, or Abandon Her

Clerk of Court for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court says “Bodeker, who wants to be buried next to his wife Lorna, may feel he has no choice but to exhume her body and move it in order to do so if his property is sold, but that would be his decision, not the court’s.”

WWII 11th Airborne Hero Warren Bodeker the day he was kicked off his land

On June 26, Oath Keepers broke the story of 89 year old WWII hero Warren Bodeker being forced off of his land and out of his house by Montana Federal Bankruptcy Trustee, Christy Brandon, after being pressured into signing a stipulation waiving his homestead exemption and agreeing to sell his home.  He has since fought to rescind that stipulation and keep his home and land, but the Trustee sold it anyway, against his wishes, and secured a court order for him to vacate his home.  As we reported, Warren’s wife Lorna, who died of cancer this past year, is buried there on their land, right next to the house.   Mr. Bodeker had planned to live there till he died and then be buried right next to his wife.  In our article, we stated that he was being forced to exhume his wife’s  body.  We stand by that statement because, with his land being sold out from under him, the only way he can now be assured of being buried next to his wife as they had planned is to exhume her body and move it to a cemetery.

Well, after our news article and interview went viral, Bernard McCarthy, the clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, made statements to The Missoulian Newspaper taking exception to our reporting, asserting that Mr. Bodeker does have a choice after-all.  Apparently he’s welcome to just leave his wife’s body there, along with Warren’s tractor and other equipment that were sold with the property.

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