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Home Town Davis
Date of Passing May 14, 1998
Location of Interment Hillcrest Memorial Park - Cumberland, Maryland
FREDERICK,MARYLAND -- Mr. Hobert Blake Bonner, 79, who resided at 2500 Driftwood Court, Frederick, died on Thursday, May 14, 1998, at the Citizens Nursing Home. He was the husband of Mrs. Betty M. Davis Bonner for 52 years.
Born at Davis, W.Va., July 3, 1918, Mr. Bonner was a son of the late S. Victor and Kate Teter Bonner.
Mr. Bonner was a graduate of Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, W.Va., earning his degree in microbiology. He served with the United States Army during World War II in Europe, and was part of the D-Day invasion forces on Normandy Beach, France.
He had been employed at Fort Detrick for 20 years, and later followed by employment at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for 12 years as a microbiologist, retiring in 1983.
He was a member of the Francis Scott Key Post #11, American Legion, a member of the John R. Webb Post V.F.W., and the Knights of Pythias, Mountain City Lodge #29, and the NARFE. He volunteered many hours for the Meals on Wheels in Frederick.
Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Duke Bonner, and wife, Carol, Knoxville, John Bonner, and wife, Vicky, Keedysville, and William C. Bonner, Knoxville; four grandchildren, David Bonner, Michael Bonner, and wife, Doris, Melissa Bonner and Nathan Bonner. Also surviving are brothers and sisters, Opal Bosley, Hanover, Pa., Ruby Schaeffer, Silver Spring, Howard L. Bonner, Rockville, and Curtis M. Bonner, Canaan Valley, W.Va. He also leaves behind many friends and the wonderful staff at Citizens Nursing Home.
He was preceded in death by sisters, Maysel Gaynor, Alta Sterner and Pauline Morris.
The family will receive friends at the Keeney and Basford Funeral Home, 106 Church St., on Sunday, May 17, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the Etchison Memorial Chapel of the funeral home on Monday, May 18, at 10 a.m. The Rev. Wendell McClellan, pastor of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, Gapland, will officiate. Interment will be in the Hillcrest Memorial Park, Cumberland.
Other Comments:
T/4 HOBERT BLAKE BONNER ENTERED THE U.S. ARMY ON 11 MAY 1942. HE SERVED IN EUROPE WTH THE 5TH MACHINE RECORDS UNIT (MOBILE) FROM 17 NOVEMBER 1943 UNTIL 16 NOVEMBER 1945. T/4 BONNER WAS HONORBLY DISCHARGED FORT MEADE, MARYLAND ON 20 NOVEMBER 1945.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.
