Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


From the Fairfield Recorder in Apr 2004:

[This is Theophilus Hunter Bonner]

Offie "Dock" Bonner

Funeral services were held Mon., April 5 for Mr. Offie "Dock" Bonner, 81, of
Blossom who died Thrus., April 1, at Paris Regional Medical Center.

Internment services were held at the Evergreen Cemetery and officiated by Rev.
Randall Scott and Rev. Larry Solice.

Mr. Bonner was born May 12, 1922, in Fairfield.  He was a corporal in the
United States Army during World War II and received the American Theater
Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Victory Ribbon and Overseas Service Bar.
He worked for 13 years as a fence installer for Sears and then worked 24 years
for Thomas Food Marts.  He was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church.

His survivors include his wife, Billie Maxine Kelly Bonner; daughter, Mary
Rhoades and husband, Gary, of Blossom; granddaughter, Shawonna Brown and
husband, Jeff, of Paris; three great-grandsons, Abrahm, Trevor, and Devin; two
brothers, D. A. Bonner and wife, Pat, of Fairfield and Charles Mack Bonner and
wife, Ann, of Mexia; two sisters, Jorene Wells of Channelview and Majorie Nell
Herndon and husband, Dick, of Ulvade; two sisters-in-law, Margaret Tippit of
Paris and Joe Butler of Edna; a dear friend, Roy Landers of Bonham; and
several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Mr. Bonner was preceeded in death by his parents, James Millen and Artie Ola
Teer Bonner; four brothers, John Laird Bonner, Wilson Bonner, Richard Bonner,
and Eugene Bonner; and by one sister, Annie Lee Bonner.

Arrangements were handled by Bright-Holland Funeral Home.