BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
NAME: 
 
CLEON RICHARD BONNER 
 
BORN: 
 
Fairhope, Alabama 
 
November 11, 1913 
 
PARENTS: The late William and Hannah 
 
Mitchell Bonner 
 
DEMISE: 
 
February 5, 1991 
 
Medical Center, Macon, GA 
 
EDUCATION: Mobile County Training School 
 
Mobile, Alabama 
 
Tuckegee University, Tuskegee, 
 
Alabama 
 
Bachelor and Master's Degrees 
 
in Agriculture. 
 
Further study: Hamption 
 
Institute University of 
 
Minnesota 
 
POSmONS: Prindpalship at the following: 
 
Keigler Training Schook George- 
 
town_ GA, Shady Dale School, 
 
Jasper County, GA, Teacher of 
 
Vocational AgricUlture, Tooms 
 
boro, GA, and Boggs Academy 
 
in Burke County, Farm Security 
 
SupervisorWaynesboro, GA, Prin- 
 
cipal of the Georgia Academy for 
 
.the Blind. Retired from this posi- 
 
tion August 1975. 
 
CHURCH: 
 
St. Paul A.M.E. Cnurch, Secre- 
 
tary of Church, Steward, Direc- 
 
tor of St. Paul Daycare Center. 
 
COMMUNITY: He served on the Board of Direc- 
 
tors of ARC; Part owner of the Religious Bookstore, 
 
Member of the Homosophians Cub. 
 
Surviving to cherish his memories are: two 
 
brothers, Ira Bonner, Fairhope, Ala., Dr. Leon W. 
 
Bonner, Huntsville, Ala; three daughters, Leona 
 
Walton, Macon, GA, Barbara Bonner, Brooklyn, NY, 
 
Majorie Skillman, Tampa, FL; two sons-in-law, 
 
Roosevelt Walton and Donald Skillman; five grand- 
 
daughters,Trad,TenaeYakra,Yolanda,and Yavonne. 
 
A host of niece, nephews, relatives and friends. 
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1991 ONE O'CLOCK P.M. 
ST. PAUL A.M.E. CHURCH REv. TERENCE R. GRAY, OFFICIATING- 
"My name, and my place, and my tomb all forgotten The brief race of time well and patiently run So let me pass away, peacefully, silently, Only remembered by wha.t I have done.  
 
ORDER OF SERVICE 
PRESIDING Rev. Terrence R. Gray -Presiding Minister, 
St. Paul A.M.E. Church 
PRELUDE 
VIEWING 
PROCESSIONAL ...........................Going Home" Organist 
liYMN ............................CorJle Ye Disconsolate" Combined Choirs, St. Paul A.M.E. Church 
PRAYER ...............................Rev. E. S. Mallory, Pastor, Turner Tabernacle A.M.E. Church 
SCRIPrURE ............................ Rev. C. H. Boddy, Pastor, St. Paul A.M.E. Dublin, GA 
SOLO ..............~.....Minister Marietta F. Gilbert 
REMARKS ............................Barney G. Lester, Member, Homosophian Club 
REMARKS -Brother P. R. Perry,  Steward, St. Paul A.M.E. 
REMARKS ...............Rev. Gabriel S. Hardeman, Presiding Elder, Atlanta, GA 
OBITUARY ......................................Read Silently Soft Music 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
SELECTION .......................................It Ia Well" Combined Choirs, St. Paul A.M.E. Church 
EULOGY ............The Rev. Harrison D. Bonner, Presiding Elder, Mt. Oliver A.M.E. Zion Church, Waterbury, Conn. 
SONG .........."My Faith Looks Up To Thee" (Hymn 415)...All Standing 
RECESSIONAL 
INTERMENT .............Woodlawn Cemetery 
 
 ACTIVE PALLBEARERS 
Stewards - St. Paul A.M.E. 
Brother P. R. Perry Brother Henry 0. Lamar, Sr. 
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Brother Walter A. Lamar Brother Charlie Powell Brother Charles Watkins Brother Morris Brown 
 
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HONORARY PALLBEARERS 
 
Barney G. Lester R. J. Martin John H. Turk W. Roy West William Barnes Frank Johnson Samuel T. McCombs 
 
Homosophian Club Members 
 
Charles L. Adams Andrew S. Fields 
Willie C. Hill T. B. Hooper Timothy Jones James W. Pitts Andrew W. Sims 
 
1913 
 
1991 
 
EXPRESSIONS OF APPRECIATION 
The family of the late Cleon R. Bonner wishes to gratefully acknowledge your  thoughtfulness and kind expression of sympathy during their recent bereavement.