Joy Marlena Bonner

BYRD FUNERAL HOME ON WEST MAIN

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Date: Nov 12 2015 5:53 PM

Joy Marlena Bonner 

Joy Marlena Bonner, of Wicksburg, died unexpectedly Wednesday, November 11, 2015 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was 69.

Memorial services will be held 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at Byrd Funeral Home Chapel on West Main Street with Rev. Clint McBroom officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1-2 prior to service time on Tuesday. Flowers are being accepted or memorials may be made to the Wiregrass Humane Society.

Marlena was born June 21, 1946 in Ozark to Eldon A. and Patricia P. Klapal. She spent her childhood in various parts of the U.S. and abroad, the proud daughter of one of the original U.S. Air Force Thunderbird pilots. She enjoyed her career in the medical community as office manager at Nathaniel Medical Center with Dr. Sam Banner and most recently as the receptionist at Covenant Hospice prior to her retirement. As a loving and devoted housewife and mother, she loved to cook and found great joy in raising her blended family. She loved traveling around the country and dancing like no one was watching with the love of her life, Marty.

Gracious in hospitality, pure in heart, genuine in friendship and loving to her family, Marlena could love you when you deserved it the least. Most importantly, she always gave more that she took. Marlena will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

Marlena is predeceased by her mother, Patricia Klapal.

She is survived by her sweetheart, Martin O. Juve of Wicksburg; three children, Michele Sorrells of Dothan, Noel Vanlandingham (Dawn) of Abbeville, Lance Hawkins (Kelly) of Stuttgart, Germany; three grandchildren, Jake Hawkins, Ashley Sorrells and Jade (Justin) Hughes; two great-great grandchildren; two sisters and one brother, Jane Hartley of Dothan, Xanthia Kennedy of Prattville and Freddy Klapal (Teresa) of Kinsey; several nieces and nephews also survive.

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