Bonnie Eldridge, 85, of Winner, SD passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Winner Regional Health Care Center in Winner, SD.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 2 p.m. at the Mason Funeral Home in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.
Bonnie L. Sedlacek was born on June 27, 1934 in Winner, SD to Louie Sedlacek and Maude Johnson. Her childhood was spent on a farm site near Hidden Timber and the present site of Assman Implement.
Bonnie was the youngest of three children her brother Joe (Lucille), sister Lenora (Herb) Debuhr were older than she was.
As a child she sought out the company of the family pets to run and play with; which fostered a love of animals, especially cats, that lasted all of her life.
The family moved to Winner when Bonnie was about thirteen years old.
Bonnie met her future husband at her brother-in-law’s motorcycle shop. Bud Eldridge and Bonnie were married on Nov. 5, 1950.
Bud and Bonnie spent the first couple of years on Bud’s family homesite on Bull Creek; they then purchased a farm site about 12 miles east of Winner where they raised crops, chickens, and children; the three C’s of farming.
The children Jeannie, Brad, Ellen, and Laurie ran and played and weeded in mom’s garden until 1966 when they family moved to Winner.
Bud continued farming with his son in law Allen and grandson Travis the rest of his life. Bonnie had a position as a butcher assistant at the Westside Market until the store sold out.
At which time, she went to work at the nursing home in 1970 for Pete and Judy Gregor, first as an overnight CNA and later as a cook.
In about 1978, Dr. Greg Hermson sought out Bonnie to work at his dental practice as his main chairside assistant and later she took over as office manager until her retirement in 1996.
Between the years of 1969 and 2020: Jeannie got married to Richard Brickman and had two sons Michael (Cora) and James (Joan). Brad joined the National Guards and had a son Lonnie.
Ellen married Allen Schwandt and had a son Travis (Carissa), Laurie (Cam) had two children Brandi (Mike) and Logan.
Bonnie became and unofficial “mom” to her only granddaughter Brandie (Mike) Johnson.
Bonnie has numerous great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; Kaitlyn (Zack), Moya, Keely (Chris), Brianna (Quinten), Barrett, Sienna, Taylor (Kayla), Steffan (Destiny), Charyzma (Tyler), Kristen, Dustin, William, Natalia, Paisley, Bayn, Brent, Emma, as well as many nieces and nephews.
During these years, mom not only loved her expanding family but also her many changing and evolving flowerbeds which were the highlight of her springs and summers while they were in bloom.
In the fall she always had to add some little new thing to the bed to delight her the next year.
We her daughter’s will tend to and love her family and flowers so she can delight in them for years to come as she looks in from her next place.
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