Beckham County, OK - Obits:  Clell Bonifield, 2003
Saturday, February 22, 2003

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   Canyon
   
   Clell Bonifield
   
   Clell  Bonifield,  93,  of  Canyon  died  Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2003, in
   Amarillo.
   
   Services  will  be  at  2 p.m. today in First Baptist Church of Claude
   with  the  Rev.  Howard  Rhodes  officiating. Burial will be in Claude
   Cemetery in Claude by Brooks Funeral Directors.
   
   Mr.  Bonifield  was  born  Dec. 19, 1909, in Delhi, Okla., to S.K. and
   Cora Bonifield. He was the second of eight children. He moved with his
   family  from  Delhi to Wilson, Okla., where his dad and a friend had a
   general  store.  The  family moved back to Delhi during the depression
   and he graduated from high school there.
   
   He and his brother went from Delhi to Claude, where they put in a crop
   on  a farm. The rest of the family came later. He had lived in Claude,
   Shamrock,  Borger, Canyon, Dimmitt and Amarillo. He had farmed, worked
   for  Pantex,  U.S.  Rubber,  B.F.  Goodrich and Phillips Petroleum Co.
   Clell was Baptist and accepted the Lord in Delhi when he was 16.
   
   He had been a member of a Baptist church wherever he lived. He married
   Bertha  Faye  Head  on  June 14, 1934, in Delhi. They celebrated their
   50th wedding anniversary together.
   
   He  was  preceded  in  death  by  his  wife;  his older sister, Nettie
   Waggoner;  four  brothers,  Elmo  Bonifield,  Murray  Bonifield,  Knox
   Bonifield  and  Dyer  Bonifield;  a  sister-in-law,  Judy Bonifield; a
   grandson, Randy Atkins; and a great-granddaughter, Brittany Atkins.
   
   Survivors  include  two  daughters,  Faye Mohon and husband, Wayne, of
   Dimmitt  and  Clella  Atkins of Spring; five grandchildren, Beth Raper
   and  husband,  Joe,  David  Mohon, Deborah Huseman and husband, Bruce,
   Gordon  Atkins  and wife, Dayne, and Sheri Rogers and husband, Robert;
   seven  great-grandchildren,  Andrew Raper, Brion Raper, Kaile Huseman,
   Jill  Huseman,  Breann  Atkins,  Andrea  Rogers  and Amber Rogers; two
   sisters,  Georgia  Lee  Wilson  of  Claude  and  Billy  Jane Harvey of
   Riverside,  Calif.;  and  three  sisters-in-law, Virginia Bonifield of
   Canyon,  Marie  Bonifield  of Amarillo and Alice Bonifield, of Nashua,
   N.H.
   
   The  family  suggests  memorials  be  to  Alzheimer's Association; BSA
   Hospice:  or  the  Cottage  at  Quail  Creek,  6811  Plum Creek Drive,
   Amarillo, TX 79106.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 21, 2003
   
   This   story   printed   from   the   Amarillo  Globe-News  Online  at
   amarillonet.com:
   http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/022103/obi_allobits.shtml