Eaton, IN
Bonnie Grider
Gayheart, 86, passed away on March 7, 2016 at Golden Living Center in Muncie.
She was born
on June 3, 1929 in Burkesville, Kentucky and graduated from Cumberland County
High School.
She married
Henry Grider after high school and together they would have three sons. Henry and Bonnie owned and operated the pool
hall and grocery in Eaton for several years..
Bonnie
attended the Eaton Church of God since 1979 and could always be found working
at Eaton Video with her son David.
Following
Henry’s death in 1970, she married Leroy Gayheart on August 15, 1975 in Eaton.
Bonnie is
survived by her children: David Grider, Rick Grider (wife, Laura), Gary Grider
(wife, Leigh Ann), Michael Gayheart (wife, Ann), Rebecca Gayheart, Jeff
Gayheart (wife, Lori), and Rita Koger (husband, John), her sister, Mildred
Morris (husband, Dick), son-in-law, Joe Cox, special niece, Linda Rench
(husband, Chuck), fifteen grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren as well
as several nieces and nephews, her brother-in-law, Evan Grider (wife, Mary),
and three sisters-in-law, Mary Cox (husband, John), Doris Humphrey, and
Margaret Moore.
Bonnie was
preceded in death by her first husband Henry Grider, her second husband, Leroy
Gayheart, a daughter, Jayne Cox, two
sisters, Bessie Smith and Kate Lackey, and two grandchildren, Amy
Gayheart-Stefanski and Adam Nickerson.
Funeral
services will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, March 14, 2016 at the Eaton
Church of God, 700 E. Harris St., Eaton with Pastor Andy Denniston
officiating. Burial will follow at the
Eaton Union Cemetery.
Visitation
for family and friends will be on Sunday, March 13, 2016 from 3:00 until 7:00
P.M. at Pitman-Richman Funeral Home, 200 S. Hartford St., Eaton and from 9:00
to 10:00 A.M., Monday, at the church.
Memorials
may be made in her name to the Alzheimer’s Association or the American Heart
Association.
Online
condolences may be left for the family at www.watersfuneralhomes.com
