Bonnie Marie Mcqueen.....Age 66

Visitation 1-3pm Saturday December 31,2016 at the Eddy-Birchard Chapel
followed by geaveside service at Parker Cemetery

Memorials are to the Bonnie McQueen Memorial Fund
Send c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral home
P.O. Box 430 Osawatomie, KS 66064
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Bonnie Marie McQueen age 66 of Osawatomie, KS died Monday December 26,2016 at her home.

Bonnie passed away December 26, 2016 after a long battle with emphysema and toward the end heart problems. Born in Camdenton MO. on February 16, 1950, she was the fourth of eight children born to Marie Wilson Snellings and Basil Snellings.
Bonnie worked in the Kansas City area all her life. Traveling helping with the antique shows from a young age and later cleaning houses for many people in the Olathe area. Bonnie was a caregiver to a friend Shila for many years and her husband until they both passed away. Bonnie later went to work at Walmart as a people greeter, a job she loved, and made many friends there. Bonnie was a friendly person, who liked to laugh a lot. Bonnie grew up in the country, went to Stanley High School, liked to dance, ride horses, or just play in the creek. She has done a lot of traveling, 10 countries in Europe, Hawaii, Mexico and many of the states in the US, but her favorite was the country near Montreal, MO. where her Grandpa and Grandma Snellings lived. She visited their house as often as she could even after they were gone. She visited lots of old cemeteries there placing flowers on family she had never met. Sometimes even putting flowers on the graves of someone she didn't even know. Family was important to her. She and her husband, Mike, helped in the raising of some of their grandchildren.
Bonnie was proud to be referred to as a Hillbilly. It was a reflection of the way she was brought up and taught about the old times of life and survival. Bonnie was preceded in death by her brother Roy, Brother Mark and Sister Marsha (twins), mother Marie and father Basil, her daughter Sophronia, and husband Mike. Bonnie and Mike were married for 46 years. She leaves her daughter Tammy (Kevin) Cherry of Whiting, KS, daughter Ann (Emmitt) Summers of Osawatomie, and son Michael (Nicole Howie) McQueen of Osawatomie; Grandchildren Garnet (Chris) Williams of Holden, KS, Candy (Adam) Rojas of Osawatomie, Marty Dennis of Wichita, Brandon (Courtney) Erisman of Gardner, Chandler Erisman, of Osawatomie, Dustin Summers of Paola, Jesse Summers of Osawatomie, Devin Barrett of Fort Scott, Kayla (Gary) Colston of Paola, Hayley Barrett of Paola, Hannah McQueen of Osawatomie, Jamie and Richard Anderson of Paola, Lily, Sam, Della and Levi McQueen of Gardner, and 8 Great Grandchildren Gabriel, Aidan, Kenzley, Liam, John, Karslyn, Kaleb, and Ares.
She also leaves a brother and 2 sisters, John (Debbie) Snellings of Herkimer KS, Sue (Stan) Emperley of Scott, LA, Judy (Jack) Tinker of Parker, along with several sister and brother in laws, Aunt Verna Wilson, cousins, nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her. Rest easy now Bonnie your struggle is over. Bonnie will be laid to rest next to her husband Mike, and there her daughter Sophie and parents Marie and Basil Snellings in Highland Cemetery, Parker Kansas if you ever get near the cemetery in Parker stop in and see Bonnie and Mike's tombstone. It has a family tree of the their family on a large black stone. Memorials are to the Bonnie McQueen Memorial Fund Send c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral home P.O. Box 430 Osawatomie, KS 66064.