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Clara Elizabeth Schick Bonner
18 May 1892 – 21 Apr 1982
| Birth | 18 May 1892 |
| Death | 21 Apr 1982 |
| Cemetery | Bonner Cemetery Fairfield , Freestone County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Michael Edd Bonner on 01 Sep 2009 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16813706 |
Bio
Joel Isaac Bonner married Clara Elizabeth Schick, daughter of Quincy Calvin Schick and Charles Emily Greer, on May 25, 1918. Clara was born in Freestone County on May 18, 1892. After living for a time in Bonnerville, Joel and Clara moved to Fairfield. Clara taught school in both Freestone and Navarro counties and was teaching fifth grade in Fairfield in 1929 when Stewards Mill School consolidated with Fairfield. For a time, she and Joel operated the Fairview Inn, a café at the corner of US 75 and Main Street in Fairfield. They also kept boarders. Wanda Willard Smith recalled, "Mrs. Bonner was an excellent cook who served three meals a day to her boarders. I was often invited to join them, sometimes for lunch, sometimes for supper. We usually gathered before or afterward in the cozy family sitting room at the back of the house.Mrs. Bonner (usually in an apron) was portly, jolly, hospitable." Clara was a past matron of Fairfield Chapter No. 331, Order of the Eastern Star. She received her fifty-year-membership certificate in 1973 from Mrs. Eleanor Bien, Deputy Grand Matron, District I, Section 7, Grand Chapter of Texas, Order of the Eastern Star. Clara also belonged to the Fairfield History Club and the Fairfield Garden Club. Clara's short, rotund physique contrasted with Joel's slim figure. She wore her hair in braids coiled on the back of her head. Wanda Willard Smith remembered, "By Christmas [1941], Mrs. Bonner had organized a group of us girls into one of the first local war efforts. We met once or twice a week in her living room. She taught us to knit caps and mittens for children in Great Britain. The skeins of marine blue wool were supplied by the American Red Cross who shipped the finished items overseas." Both were members of Fairfield-Harmony Presbyterian Church. Clara spent several years in Fairview Manor, a nursing home in Fairfield, before her death on April 21, 1982. Joel and Clara had no children. Billie Newell Schick, son of Clara's deceased brother, spent many of his formative years in their home. They treated him as a son even though they never legally adopted him. In return, Billie saw to it that Clara enjoyed excellent care.
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- Minnie Lucile Shick Covey 1884–1973 FaG
- Lottie Bell Shick Stevens 1888–1951 FaG
- Edith Edna Shick Procter 1890–1970 FaG
- Edith Edna Schick Proctor 1890–1970 FaG
- Paul Ellsworth Shick Sr 1893–1969 FaG
- Harry O Shick 1897–1940 FaG
- Floris Schick 1903–1949 FaG
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