Viva T. Bonine
July 1866-Sept. 30, 1956
The Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Michigan), Tuesday, October 2, 1956, page 10
NILES―Mrs. Viva Bonine, 90, widow of Dr. Fred Bonine, famed eye specialist of Niles, died Sunday morning in Jennings hospital, Detroit. Mrs. Bonine had been making her home in Detroit with her daughter, Mrs. Willard S. French, 2239 Burns ave.
Mrs. Bonine was born in July of 1866 in Newark, N.J. Dr Bonine died Aug. 22, 1941. Mrs. Bonine resided in Niles several years after her husband's death before moving to Detroit.
Mrs. Bonine is survived by her daughter, Mrs. French; two grandchildren, Sherwin Bonine French and Mrs. Millicent French Prescott, both of Detroit; five great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. H. M. Baldwin of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Committal services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the mausoleum in Silverbrook cemetery, Niles. The Rev. John Carlton, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, will officiate.
Friends may call at the Pifer funeral home beginning this evening.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan), Monday, October 1, 1956, page 9
MRS. VIVA T. BONINE―Mrs. Bonine, 90, widow of Dr. F.N. Bonine of Niles, died Sunday.
A native of Newark, N.J., Mrs. Bonine lived the last several years with a daughter, Mrs. Willard S. French, of 2239 Burns.
Services will be in Niles, the time to be determined. The body is at the William R. Hamilton Co., 3975 Cass.
Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. H.M. Baldwin, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.