Clell Bonifield

Clell Bonifield, 93, of Canyon, died Wednesday, February 19, 2003 in Amarillo. Services will be at 2:00 PM on Friday, February 21, 2003 at the First Baptist Church of Claude, Texas with Rev. Howard Rhodes, officiating. Burial will be in the Claude Cemetery, Claude, Texas Mr. Bonifield was born on December 19, 1909 in Delhi, Oklahoma to S. K. and Cora Bonifield. He was the second of eight children. He moved with his family from Delhi to Wilson, OK where his dad and a friend had a general store. The family moved back to Delhi during the depression and he graduated from high school there. He and his brother went from Delhi to Claude, Texas where they put in a crop on a farm and the rest of the family came later. He has lived in Claude, Shamrock, Borger, Canyon, Dimmitt, and Amarillo. He has farmed, worked for Pantex, U.S. Rubber, B.F. Goodrich, and Phillips Petroleum Company. Clell is Baptist and accepted the Lord in Delhi when he was sixteen. He has been a member of a Baptist church wherever he lived. He married Bertha Faye Head on June 14, 1934 in Delhi. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary together. She preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by his older sister, Nettie Waggoner, his brothers, Elmo Bonifield, Murray Bonifield, Knox Bonifield, and Dyer Bonifield, a sister-in-law, Judy Bonifield, a grandson, Randy Atkins, and a great granddaughter, Brittany Atkins. Survivors include two daughters, Faye Mohon, and husband, Wayne, of Dimmitt, and Clella Atkins, of Spring, TX; five grandchildren, Beth Raper, and husband, Joe, David Mohon, Deborah Huseman, and husband, Bruce, Gordon Atkins, and wife, Dayne, and Sheri Rogers, and husband, Robert; seven great grandchildren, Andrew and Brian Raper, Kaile and Jill Huseman, Breann Atkins, and Andrea and Amber Rogers; two sisters, Georgia Lee Wilson, of Claude, and Billy Jane Harvey, of Riverside, CA; and three sisters-in-law, Virginia Bonifield, of Canyon, Marie Bonifield, of Amarillo, and Alice Bonifield, of Nashua, New Hampshire. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be sent to the Alzheimer's Association, BSA Hospice, or the Cottage at Quail Creek, 6811 Plum Creek, Amarillo, TX.