BONNER, LUCIUS FRANKLIN "FRANK", JR.

                    
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 LUCIUS FRANKLIN "FRANK" BONNER, JR. 

"The Hamilton Herald-News"      05/27/1998

Lucius Franklin "Frank" Bonner Jr., 73, of Hamilton County died Thursday, May 21.

Services were Saturday, May 23, at First United Methodist Church in Hico under the direction of Rutledge Funeral Home.

Mr. Bonner was born Nov. 18, 1924, in Dallas, the son of Mayme Weathersbee and Lucius Franklin Bonner. He was a longtime rancher and educator, having moved to the Bonner Ranch in Fairy in 1953. He was a graduate of Texas A&M University and received a masters of education degree from Howard Payne University. A veteran of World War II, he served in the US Navy as Quartermaster Assistant. He taught school and was elementary principal for more than 25 years with the Fairy and Hico independent school districts from which he retired in 1985. After his retirement, he traveled frequently over a period of six years devoting his many talents to researching and compiling an extensive family history.

He was married to Mary Ona Whitson Bonner. She preceded him in death in 1979.

Survivors include his wife, Gwen Bonner of Fairy; two sons, Lucius Franklin Bonner III of ..., and Jon Cullen Bonner of ...; two daughters, Melanie Malinda Bell of ... and Melissa Lori Clifton of ...; a stepson, James Loman Wiley of ...; two stepdaughters, Judith Gwen Wiley of ..., and Kelly Jean Simmons of ...; eight grandchildren; and seven step=grandchildren.

 

 
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