Onthank, Bonnie 1899-1994

ONTHANK, SHARP, BATES, LUSK, CLAYBROOK, JOHNSON, VAN GORP, HAMOR, SAUNDERS, DAVIS, KESTER, PLUMMER, KRUMM

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 12/19/2013 at 11:46:40

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
March 24, 1994

BONNIE ONTHANK

Bonnie Sharp Onthank, 94, of Monroe Park, Grinnell, died Tuesday, March 22, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. John Propert, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating. Organist will be James Severe, and pallbearers will be Tom Bates, Jeff Lusk, Danny Sharp, Joe Sharp, Jim Sharp, Floyd Sharp, Kathy Sanders and Laura Bates-Yorburg.

Burial will be in Hazelwood Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church.

She was born June 10, 1899, near Mount Pisgah, Ky., and attended rural school there. She was married to Isaac S. Sharp April 23, 1915, in Mt. Pisgah. The couple moved to Grinnell in 1917 where she was a homemaker.

Mr. Sharp died in 1963, and she was married to Edward W. Onthank March 7, 1968. The couple farmed near Grinnell. Mr. Onthank died in 1970, and she moved to Grinnell to make her home.

Surviving are two daughters, Alma Bates of Newton and Opal Lusk of Des Moines; two sons, James of Newton and Floyd of Grinnell; seven stepdaughters, Mildred Claybrook and Rose Johnson, both of Searsboro, Elsie Mae Van Gorp, Darlene Hamor and Mollie Saunders, all of Grinnell, Grace Davis of Marshalltown and Irene Kester of Montezuma; 14 grandchildren; 15 step-grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; 29 step-great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; six step-great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Norma Plummer of Des Moines. She was preceded in death by her husbands and one sister, Doris Krumm.