Virginia Bonifield

Graveside services will be 10:00 A.M. Monday, March 14 at Dreamland Cemetery. Memorial services will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, March 14 at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Rick Enns, pastor, officiating. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 13 from 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. at Brooks Chapel. Virginia began her journey on October 21, 1927 in Muleshoe. She was a blessing to William and Rosaland Kennedy. The Kennedy family included; sister, Crystal Elliott and brothers, William Gordon Kennedy, Jr., and Dr. Rex Kennedy. The family highly valued education. After graduating from Hico High School in Central Texas, Virginia graduated from Texas Tech University where she majored in elementary education and participated on the fencing team. She set off to Borger to start her teaching career where she taught in East Ward Elementary and Borger Junior High School. She continues to keep in touch with the kids she taught and loved there. She touched many lives in the 19 years she taught kindergarten at Rex Reeves in Canyon. She always said, "this is where God meant for me to be." She retired in 1991 after 28 years of teaching. Virginia was introduced to the love of her life, Dyer Bonifield, in the kitchen of the farm house where they would later raise their four girls. Virginia was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Canyon. She spent many years volunteering in the church and in organizations such as Meals On Wheels, Canyon Cares, High Plains Historical Museum, a prison ministry, and Dreamland Cemetery Board. Virginia loved and cherished her church family and a multitude of dear friends and students. She leaves her legacy of love to all of these. She was a loving wife, mother, sister, daughter, and friend. She lived her life devoted to her faith. Everyday we will feel her presence and remember the lessons she taught us and the blessings she gave us. Proverbs 31:26-28, She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction is on her tongue. Her children arise and call her blessed! She was preceded in death by her husband, Dyer; her daughter, Denise Rogers; her parents; and her brothers, William Kennedy Jr., and Dr. Rex Kennedy. Her adoring family includes, daughter, Criste Tonra and husband, Stephen, and their daughter, Maggie, of San Antonio; daughter, Susan Mayo and husband, Stephen, and their children, Alex Brownlee and husband, Sammy, and Dyer and Meredith, of Comfort, daughter, Dian McNutt, and her children, Sara and Taylor, of Kyle; son-in-law, Ron Rogers, and his children, Kriston Soliz and husband, Robert, and Dillan Rogers and wife, Nicki, of Amarillo; six great grandchildren; a multitude of nieces and nephews who she dearly loved; a beloved sister, Crystal; and two sisters-in-law, Bunny Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy. The family suggests memorials be to the First United Methodist Church, 1818 4th Ave., Canyon, TX 79015 or to Dreamland Cemetery, P.O. Box 38, Canyon, TX 79015.