Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Molina-Bonilla , Josue Elias  July 14 2004
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K Taylor bluewolf@onemain.com July 17, 2004, 1:47 am

The Bakersfield Californian
Funeral services will be held today for a Bakersfield man who died Wednesday 
after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer made public by his family's pleas 
for bone-marrow donations.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. for Josue Elias Molina-Bonilla at Greenlawn 
Memorial Chapel at the Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary. He was 24.

Bonilla died at home with his family early Wednesday morning after fighting 
leukemia and searching for a bone marrow match for nearly a year.

"We knew he was going to pass but we didn't think it was going to be this 
fast," his sister Liz Molina-Bonilla said. "We just know that he's not 
suffering anymore and he is in a better place."

Bonilla was born in Honduras and moved to Bakersfield in 1994. He graduated 
from Ridgeview High School in 1998. He liked to play soccer, watch movies and 
go fishing, his sister said.

He spent four years in the Navy, including nine months in the Persian Gulf 
aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in 
San Joaquin Valley College to train as a refrigerator and air conditioning 
repairman.

Survivors include his parents Vilma Bonilla and Emerito Molina-Bonilla; 
siblings Liz Molina-Bonilla, Telvis Molina-Bonilla, and Alba Molina-Bonilla; 
aunt Ruby Rios; uncle Mario Gueverra; and cousin Benjamin Gueverra. 


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