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Nelma Jean Speed Bonner
22 Feb 1930 – 24 Jul 2025
| Birth | 22 Feb 1930 |
| Death | 24 Jul 2025 |
| Cemetery | Bonner Cemetery Fairfield , Freestone County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Eric Wood on 25 Jul 2025 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16968356 |
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Daughter of Jessie Pearl Renfrow and Clarence Speed. Wife of Jim Billie Bonner, Jr. ======================================================================== Passed away 7/24/2025 around 6:AM at her home in town in Fairfield, TX. Services Tuesday (7/29), visitation at 10 AM and funeral service at 11 AM, Griffins. ======================================================================== Source: Griffin-Roughton funeral home: Nelma Jean Bonner February 22, 1930 - July 24, 2025 Nelma Jean Speed Bonner, 95, of Fairfield, Texas passed from this life early Thursday morning July 24, 2025, at her home. She was born in the Ward Prairie Community outside of Fairfield on February 22, 1930, to Clarence Speed and Jessie Pearl Renfro Speed. She attended school in a one room schoolhouse in Ward Prairie until the consolidation with Fairfield ISD when she was in the fourth grade. Her family moved to the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, where she graduated from Sunset High School. She lived in the city for several years before she married Jim Billie Bonner Jr. in Fairfield, Texas. Jim and Jean had two sons Jim Billie (Buck) Bonner and Biff Bonner. She enjoyed her life as a ranch wife and mother. A member of Ward Prairie Baptist Church she was always helping with Sunday School, Bible School and B.T.S. Frequently pastors and their families were Sunday dinner visitors at the Bonner home. Jean is preceded in death by her husband Jim Bonner and son Biff Bonner. She is survived by her son Buck Bonner of Fairfield. She is also survived by a number of other family members and friends. Viewing will be Tuesday morning, July 29, 2025, from, 10 - 11am in the Chapel at Griffin - Roughton Funeral Home with a Celebration of Life to begin at 11am with Bro. David Bristow of Ward Prairie Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Bonner Cemetery with Jody Bonner, Bobby Bonner, John Y. Bonner, Ronnie Hoeinghaus, Cody Hoeinghaus and John Paul Dineen serving as pallbearers. ========================================================================
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- Travis Speed 1909–1975 FaG
- Carrie Lillian Speed Lee 1911–1955 FaG
- Gladys Adelle Speed Harris-Hargrove 1914–1995 FaG
- John Quitman Speed 1916–1963 FaG
- Maj. Earl Speed 1918–1987 FaG
- Eleanor Grace Speed Cannon 1920–2010 FaG
- Hazel Wynema Speed Hoeinghaus 1926–2016 FaG
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