Bonnie Jean Guest of Paris || Obituary

Bonnie Jean Guest, 81, of Paris, passed away Thursday, October 20, 2022, at Paris Regional Medical Center.

Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Monday, Oct. 24 at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Dr. L. C. Stout officiating. Burial will follow in Meadowbrook Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Guest, the daughter of Leland Brantley & Ella Pierce Brantley, was born Dec. 21, 1940, in Foley, Alabama.

On Jan. 1, 1960, she married Jack Guest, building thirty years of family and memories before his death on Nov. 16, 1990. 

Her career, as a teacher’s aide, with the Prairiland ISD, spanned many years. Bonnie worked at the Deport campus and the Blossom campus. She was a member of the Lamar-Delta Retired Teachers, the Eastern Star, and First Baptist Church Paris where she was active in the Senior Adult Sunday School Class. For a number of years, she volunteered at 

L. P. McCuistion Regional Medical Center. Bonnie’s grandbabies, who referred to her as Nana, were the light of her world and she loved them very much.

Bonnie was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, four brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include two daughters, Kim Guest and Susan Taylor, her companion for thirty years, Mack Coward, grandchildren, Morgan Hemingway & husband Chase, Keaton Tucker, and Kennedy Taylor, great-grandchildren, Knox Hemingway, Swayzie Hemingway, Rumor Hemingway, and Nixyn Tucker, and a brother, Freddie Brantley along with numerous nieces & nephews and a plethora of friends.

Casket bearers will be John Denison, Chase Hemingway, Keaton Tucker, Jason Coward, Lawrence Coward, Knox Hemingway, and Britt Barnard.

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