Mary Belle (Waltz) Bonnell

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Mary Belle (Waltz) Bonnell of Bunker Hill died at the Meridian Village Care Center in Glen Carbon at 7:55 a.m. on Friday, March 12, 2010.

She was born Sept. 24, 1929, in Eldorado to Dave Waltz and Gwendolyn Edwards. She married Charles W. Bonnell in 1946 in Paducah, Ky.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at Kravanya Funeral Home in Bunker Hill. Services will be at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, also at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Bunker Hill Cemetery.

Survivors are spouse, Charles Bonnell; sons, Charles David, Raymond and Dwight Bonnell; daughters, Karen Bonnell and Illa David; brothers, Alvin, John, Jim and Bill Waltz; sisters, Lola Irvin and Beatrice Stafford; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by parents; one sister; and three brothers.

Memorials are to Meridian Village Lutheran Senior Services or Seventh Day Adventist Church.