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Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of Angie May Watson (wife of Edd Robinson Bonner)    
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Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of Angie May Watson (wife of Edd Robinson Bonner)


Fairfield Recorder - Sept 28, 1995 edition

Angie May Watson Bonner 
   
  Funeral services for Angie May Watson Bonner were held at Capp Memorial
  Chapel on Monday, September 25, 1995 on 2 p.m. with Rev. Ron Petty
  officating.  Burial was beside her husband in the Bonner Cemetery.  She died
  in her home in Fairfield on Sunday, September 24, 1995, after a lengthy
  illness. 
  Angie May Watson was born at Stewards Mill on October 14, 1919, the daughter
  of Edward Monroe Watson, Sr. and Angelina Compton.  She attended the Stewards
  Mill School but graduated from Fairfield High School as salutatorian in 1936.
  After working at the state school in Witchia Falls, she married Edd Robinson
  Bonner on
[Note visible in photo of article:
she married Edd Robinson Bonner on November 21, 1937. Rev. Walter Willis
performed the ceremony at the Methodist Parsonage in ]
  Fairfield.
Never content to sit quietly on the side, Angie was active in community
affairs.  She chaired the Freestone County Museum Board, held memberships in
the Freestone County Historical Society and Fairfield Country Club, and was a
former member and president of The History Club.
   Angie May was also an active member of First United Methodist Church, having
   served as a board member, treasurer, delegate to annual conference, Sunday
   School teacher, president of United Methodist Women, and was honored with
   lifetime membership in the Women's Society of Christian Service.
   For more than fifty years, she was a member of Fairfield Chapter No. 331,
   Order of the Eastern Star.  Having held many chapter offices, she was a past
   three-time matron.  She held many Grand Chapter appointments including
   Deputy Grand Matron and Grand Representive of Delware in Texas.  In 1994,
   she was honored by receiving the Spirit of Eastern Star Award from her
   chapter and The Grand Chapter of Texas, OES.  She was a member of Merak
   Temple, Daughters of the Nile, and Daughters of the Republic of Texas.  
   Although retired, Angie May had worked for Fairfield State Bank and the T.
   R. Bonner - Sam Manahan auction sale.  She served as deputy tax collector in
   the Freestone County Tax Assessor Collector's office.  Other jobs included
   secretarial ones at Fairfield Hospital and Fairfield Independent School
   District.  At the time of her death, she was involved in ranching. 
   
   [Survivors removed by request]