ROBERT LEE BONNETT

BONNETT

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/4/2002 at 22:08:10

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, December 5, l9l8

ROBERT LEE BONNETT, son of WILLIAM and MARY E. BONNETT, was born in Daviess County, Mo., on March 20, l864, departed this life at the St. Joseph Hospital on Nov. 2l, l9l8 at 4 p.m., being 54 years, 8 months and l day old. When about 2 years of age, he moved with his parents to Decatur County, Iowa, where he grew to manhood. In the year of l885 he went to Wisconsin where he remained about two years. Then he returned to Decatur County, and moved on the home place where he engaged in farming till the summer of l909. Having sold his farm he moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where he made his home with the exception of two years in California and one year at Excelsior Springs, Mo., where he and his sister, SARAH, resided. His father, mother, three brothers and two sisters have gone on before him. He has one brother, CHARLEY, of Andover, Mo., and one sister, SARAH, of St. Joseph, Mo. left to mourn their loss.

Funeral services were held Nov. 24, at Andover, Mo., conducted by W.R. Manchester, assisted by F.J. Bell and singer from Lamoni, who furnished appropriate music. Interment in the Andover Cemetery.

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CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our sincere thanks to the friends and neighbors who assisted in the burial of our brother and uncle.

CHARLES and SARAH BONNETT.

OSA and MARY BONNETT.

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May 2, 2002