January 9, 2010

Marguerite C. Bonnett

Totowa

Services

Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 12, 2009 from 3-5 and 7-9 PM.  

Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Marguerite C. Bonnett (nee Clark) age 90 of Totowa died peacefully on January 9, 2010 with the comfort of her family by her side.

She was born in Jersey City and lived her formative years in Pompton Lakes having graduated from Pompton Lakes High School, Pompton Lakes with the first graduating class in 1936. She has lived in Totowa since 1949 where she and her husband raised their children. She was the youngest president ever elected to the Totowa PTA.

She attended Douglas College on a full scholarship for two years before having to leave school to help financially support her family.

She worked at Picatiny Arsenal, Dover and later at Haband in Paterson where she met her husband Peter Francis Bonnett.  They married in Paterson in 1942 and honeymooned in Atlantic City.

Marguerite was very athletic and excelled at basketball, softball and was an excellent swimmer. She loved being by the water and enjoyed fishing. She was also an expert sharpshooter, who enjoyed target shooting at the Garrett Mountain Rifle Range in Paterson. She also enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting having made many of her children’s clothes. She also had many pets at home and was a true animal lover.  She especially loved her cats Fremont, Kady, and Chauncey.

She was the beloved wife of the late Peter Francis Bonnett(1982); loving mother of Peter Christian Bonnett and his wife Louise of Succasunna, Suzanne Marie Norman and her husband Richard of Ringwood and Peggy Bonnett of Totowa; loved sister of the late John Prentice Clark.

Those planning an expression of sympathy in Marguerite’s name are asked to consider the Passaic County SPCA, PO Box 721, Clifton, NJ 07015.

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Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 12, 2009 from 3-5 and 7-9 PM.  

Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

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