Interment: Custer County Cemetery.
Bonnie H. (Lanham) Bartlett, age 80, of Miles City passed away on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City.
Bonnie was born on January 6, 1930 in Gillette, Wyoming, the daughter of Emerson and Thelma (Berry) Lanham. Bonnie lived with her parents and siblings W.P. Bill Lanham, Ester B. McBride and Emerine Hanlan, a loving and active family including her grandparents C.P. and Fannie Berry on their ranches on Bitter Creek near Recluse, Wyoming. Bonnie was a good student and received grades 1-8 in a one room school on Bitter Creek, Campbell County High School and a two year degree from Miles City Junior College. Bonnie married Robert Brent, their son Robert Alan Brent was born on May 14, 1947. The later divorced. Bonnie later married Chester L Bloxom and together with the Bloxom children and Bobby Brent, they lived on North Jordan in Miles City. This was a busy place. They were often painting, fencing, and had a beautiful yard and garden, cellar room full of canned m meat and pickles. They enjoyed their children and the neighborhood. Chet Bloxom died in 1976. As a child at home, bonnie and her sisters and brother had fun on their own and with the Swanson and Rhodes children, going to dances at Recluse, WY, going horseback riding, and swimming in Bitter Creek. Bonnie was a very organized person and did her work in a hurry. She was usually a happy person who loved music and dancing. She was hospitable and a great cook. Consider yourself lucky if you received a box of her cookies made especially for you or her golden pumpkin pie with real whip cream. Bonnie always worked; some of the cafs in Miles City were Interstate, Ten Spot, 4-Bs and the 600 Cafe. During World War II and later, Bonnie had worked at the Gillette Hospital
Bonnie loved to sing and had played accordion music as a teenager. In high school, she played tuba in the high school band and would march down to the depot in Gillette to greet the passenger trains of soldiers being moved during World War II. Some of Bonnies happiest times were with her children when she and family went to Red Lodge for Fiddle Jamborees and visiting and picking chokecherries along the ditches to make jelly & jam. She was loved cooking and decorating for Christmas and birthday dinners.
Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents, infant son William C. Brent, her son Robert A. Brent, her husband Chester L. Bloxom and her former husband Wayne Bartlett.
Bonnie is survived by her sisters: Ester McBride of Recluse, WY and Emerine (Everett) Hanlan of Broadus, MT; her brother, W.P. Bill (Marlyn) Lanham of Riverbank, CA; nieces: Kimberly (Tom) Wallace, Jennifer (Bob) Harper and children of California, Patricia Hanlan and Evelyn (Dan) Kraft of Montana; her grandchildren: Michael, Megan, Heidi and Morgan Brent; daughter-in-law Christine and her stepchildren: Jeff, Harvey, Diane, and Frances Bloxom and Judy Pluhar and their families.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, May 24, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will follow in the Custer County Cemetery. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City is in charge of the arrangements
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