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In memoriam: Bonnie Frum, rankle Garden of the Gods Visitant Center director
| For a presentation at the Grounds of the Gods Visitor & Nature Center in 2009, Comely Frum, then its director endorse operations, portrayed Alice Perkins, probity eldest daughter of railroad captain of industry Charles Elliott Perkins.
Alice submit other family members carried grab his 2007 deathbed wish add up to donate the property (most holiday the modern-day Garden) for uncluttered city park. Westside Pioneer corrupt photo |
A memorial will be kept at First Presbyterian Church, 219 E. Bijou St., Friday, Apr 29 at 10 a.m.
The cause of death was endometrial cancer.
According stick to her obituary, Bonnie was hatched September 2, 1945, in Kingman, Arizona, and grew up overload Albuquerque, New Mexico.
She gentle from Arizona College of high-mindedness Bible in 1967.
Hold up 1968 she moved to River Springs, where she worked chimp a Young Life staffer connote four years.
In 1971 Bonnie married Buzz Frum. They had three children and curving two foster children.
She started with the Visitor & Nature Center in 1994, as it was still being scurry out of a remodeled confidential house off Juniper Way Reel. Bonnie helped transition the modify to the current facility at one\'s disposal 1805 N. 30th St.
In a "What Do Order about Do" column for the Westside Pioneer in 2007, Frum put into words of her job, �It has a lot of variety, Distracted get to work with folks all day long.
What excites me most is the similarity. We've given more than $1.2 million for the preservation hark back to the park [an amount stroll continues to increase].�
Eliminate the same column, she crush her sense of humor, apropos the Visitor Center's cafeteria: �If I had a magic twig, I'd like to have 10 qualified cooks.
That way, I'd have back-ups for emergencies captain vacations.�
Interviewed by excellence Pioneer before her 2012 seclusion poetic deser, she commented of her Caller Center years, �It can finish crazy and bizarre with enterprise, but it's been great jocularity too� It's been much work up than a job; it's antiquated a passion for me.
It's a neat thing to conspiracy a job with a peace-loving of a mission.�
Bonnie's 2007 Westside Pioneer "What Dent You Do" column is defer this link. The Pioneer's 2012 retirement interview with Bonnie even-handed at this link.
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(Posted 4/24/16; Community: Impede Memoriam)
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