Bonita "Bonnie" J Nistler (Butzman)
April 07, 2011
Bonnie died peacefully at her home on April 2, 2011 with her granddaughter Tracy by her side, after a short illness. She was 91.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Prineville with a graveside service to follow at Juniper Haven Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the Parish Hall. A rosary will be held Friday, April 8, 2011 at Prineville Funeral Home at 6:00 p.m. Father Robert Greiner will be officiating.
Bonnie was born to Otto and Emma (Earney) Butzman on Nov. 11, 1919 in Alma, Wis. Her father passed away when she was just a baby. Her mother remarried Benedict Wehlage and he is known as her father and dad who raised her.
She lived in Prineville for most of her life in the same house that she and her husband, Ralph, they lived in and raised their son, Gary. She married Ralph in England on June 30, 1949. She was a caring wife, mother/grandmother, and friend with a bundle of energy that affected everyone that knew her. Her door was always open to young and old alike, for a chat, a cup of coffee, or even a sweet or two. "Come on in and let me put some coffee on."
Bonnie worked outside as often as she could, even until recently. Planting flowers every spring and getting the yard to look just right. Many local kids got their first job planting and weeding in her flower beds or garden. She paid, as she called it, a "fair wage", but the kids earned it and many would come back summer after summer looking for work until they were old enough to get a job in town somewhere.
Bonnie was an accomplished painter who throughout the years often entered her paintings in the County Fair and won her share of Blue and Red ribbons. She was a stickler for getting her subject just right, whether it was the mountains, trees, animals, ships or seas.
Besides painting, she loved to play games with her grandkids. Cribbage, Yahtzee, Skip-Bo, and Gin Rummy were favorites, but she usually let the kids pick — even after they became adults. If the kids wanted to "beat Grandma" they had to on their own because she wasn't going to let them win. Howls of laughter and many "pshaws" would echo through the house during these times.
Over the years, the Christmas Holidays were a time when Bonnie's kitchen would come alive because it was time to bake the Goodies — rocky road, fudge, divinity, peanut butter cups, a cereal mix coated with melted marshmallows, and fruitcake. The number of people who sampled these goodies grew larger each year.
When she and Ralph moved up on the hill, there weren't too many houses on their street and Bonnie loved to look out the kitchen window. Seasons came and went and eventually up went the houses, but she still loved to look out the window and see who might be going by and who might be stopping in …for that cup of coffee and a sweet.
She is survived by her granddaughter Tracy Spencer of Milwaukie, Ore., grandson Tim Nistler of Sierra Madre, Calif., and two sisters Toots (Myrle) Kroshe of Winona, Minn., and Betty O'Connor of Bend, Ore. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Nistler in 1984, son Gary Nistler in 1970, and brothers Ralph Butzman, Felix Butzman, and Benedict "Ben" Wehlage.
Prineville Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
April 07, 2011
Bonnie died peacefully at her home on April 2, 2011 with her granddaughter Tracy by her side, after a short illness. She was 91.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Prineville with a graveside service to follow at Juniper Haven Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the Parish Hall. A rosary will be held Friday, April 8, 2011 at Prineville Funeral Home at 6:00 p.m. Father Robert Greiner will be officiating.
Bonnie was born to Otto and Emma (Earney) Butzman on Nov. 11, 1919 in Alma, Wis. Her father passed away when she was just a baby. Her mother remarried Benedict Wehlage and he is known as her father and dad who raised her.
She lived in Prineville for most of her life in the same house that she and her husband, Ralph, they lived in and raised their son, Gary. She married Ralph in England on June 30, 1949. She was a caring wife, mother/grandmother, and friend with a bundle of energy that affected everyone that knew her. Her door was always open to young and old alike, for a chat, a cup of coffee, or even a sweet or two. "Come on in and let me put some coffee on."
Bonnie worked outside as often as she could, even until recently. Planting flowers every spring and getting the yard to look just right. Many local kids got their first job planting and weeding in her flower beds or garden. She paid, as she called it, a "fair wage", but the kids earned it and many would come back summer after summer looking for work until they were old enough to get a job in town somewhere.
Bonnie was an accomplished painter who throughout the years often entered her paintings in the County Fair and won her share of Blue and Red ribbons. She was a stickler for getting her subject just right, whether it was the mountains, trees, animals, ships or seas.
Besides painting, she loved to play games with her grandkids. Cribbage, Yahtzee, Skip-Bo, and Gin Rummy were favorites, but she usually let the kids pick — even after they became adults. If the kids wanted to "beat Grandma" they had to on their own because she wasn't going to let them win. Howls of laughter and many "pshaws" would echo through the house during these times.
Over the years, the Christmas Holidays were a time when Bonnie's kitchen would come alive because it was time to bake the Goodies — rocky road, fudge, divinity, peanut butter cups, a cereal mix coated with melted marshmallows, and fruitcake. The number of people who sampled these goodies grew larger each year.
When she and Ralph moved up on the hill, there weren't too many houses on their street and Bonnie loved to look out the kitchen window. Seasons came and went and eventually up went the houses, but she still loved to look out the window and see who might be going by and who might be stopping in …for that cup of coffee and a sweet.
She is survived by her granddaughter Tracy Spencer of Milwaukie, Ore., grandson Tim Nistler of Sierra Madre, Calif., and two sisters Toots (Myrle) Kroshe of Winona, Minn., and Betty O'Connor of Bend, Ore. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Nistler in 1984, son Gary Nistler in 1970, and brothers Ralph Butzman, Felix Butzman, and Benedict "Ben" Wehlage.
Prineville Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
Bonita "Bonnie" J Nistler (Butzman)
April 07, 2011
Bonnie died peacefully at her home on April 2, 2011 with her granddaughter Tracy by her side, after a short illness. She was 91.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Prineville with a graveside service to follow at Juniper Haven Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the Parish Hall. A rosary will be held Friday, April 8, 2011 at Prineville Funeral Home at 6:00 p.m. Father Robert Greiner will be officiating.
Bonnie was born to Otto and Emma (Earney) Butzman on Nov. 11, 1919 in Alma, Wis. Her father passed away when she was just a baby. Her mother remarried Benedict Wehlage and he is known as her father and dad who raised her.
She lived in Prineville for most of her life in the same house that she and her husband, Ralph, they lived in and raised their son, Gary. She married Ralph in England on June 30, 1949. She was a caring wife, mother/grandmother, and friend with a bundle of energy that affected everyone that knew her. Her door was always open to young and old alike, for a chat, a cup of coffee, or even a sweet or two. "Come on in and let me put some coffee on."
Bonnie worked outside as often as she could, even until recently. Planting flowers every spring and getting the yard to look just right. Many local kids got their first job planting and weeding in her flower beds or garden. She paid, as she called it, a "fair wage", but the kids earned it and many would come back summer after summer looking for work until they were old enough to get a job in town somewhere.
Bonnie was an accomplished painter who throughout the years often entered her paintings in the County Fair and won her share of Blue and Red ribbons. She was a stickler for getting her subject just right, whether it was the mountains, trees, animals, ships or seas.
Besides painting, she loved to play games with her grandkids. Cribbage, Yahtzee, Skip-Bo, and Gin Rummy were favorites, but she usually let the kids pick — even after they became adults. If the kids wanted to "beat Grandma" they had to on their own because she wasn't going to let them win. Howls of laughter and many "pshaws" would echo through the house during these times.
Over the years, the Christmas Holidays were a time when Bonnie's kitchen would come alive because it was time to bake the Goodies — rocky road, fudge, divinity, peanut butter cups, a cereal mix coated with melted marshmallows, and fruitcake. The number of people who sampled these goodies grew larger each year.
When she and Ralph moved up on the hill, there weren't too many houses on their street and Bonnie loved to look out the kitchen window. Seasons came and went and eventually up went the houses, but she still loved to look out the window and see who might be going by and who might be stopping in …for that cup of coffee and a sweet.
She is survived by her granddaughter Tracy Spencer of Milwaukie, Ore., grandson Tim Nistler of Sierra Madre, Calif., and two sisters Toots (Myrle) Kroshe of Winona, Minn., and Betty O'Connor of Bend, Ore. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Nistler in 1984, son Gary Nistler in 1970, and brothers Ralph Butzman, Felix Butzman, and Benedict "Ben" Wehlage.
Prineville Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
April 07, 2011
Bonnie died peacefully at her home on April 2, 2011 with her granddaughter Tracy by her side, after a short illness. She was 91.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Prineville with a graveside service to follow at Juniper Haven Cemetery. A luncheon will follow at the Parish Hall. A rosary will be held Friday, April 8, 2011 at Prineville Funeral Home at 6:00 p.m. Father Robert Greiner will be officiating.
Bonnie was born to Otto and Emma (Earney) Butzman on Nov. 11, 1919 in Alma, Wis. Her father passed away when she was just a baby. Her mother remarried Benedict Wehlage and he is known as her father and dad who raised her.
She lived in Prineville for most of her life in the same house that she and her husband, Ralph, they lived in and raised their son, Gary. She married Ralph in England on June 30, 1949. She was a caring wife, mother/grandmother, and friend with a bundle of energy that affected everyone that knew her. Her door was always open to young and old alike, for a chat, a cup of coffee, or even a sweet or two. "Come on in and let me put some coffee on."
Bonnie worked outside as often as she could, even until recently. Planting flowers every spring and getting the yard to look just right. Many local kids got their first job planting and weeding in her flower beds or garden. She paid, as she called it, a "fair wage", but the kids earned it and many would come back summer after summer looking for work until they were old enough to get a job in town somewhere.
Bonnie was an accomplished painter who throughout the years often entered her paintings in the County Fair and won her share of Blue and Red ribbons. She was a stickler for getting her subject just right, whether it was the mountains, trees, animals, ships or seas.
Besides painting, she loved to play games with her grandkids. Cribbage, Yahtzee, Skip-Bo, and Gin Rummy were favorites, but she usually let the kids pick — even after they became adults. If the kids wanted to "beat Grandma" they had to on their own because she wasn't going to let them win. Howls of laughter and many "pshaws" would echo through the house during these times.
Over the years, the Christmas Holidays were a time when Bonnie's kitchen would come alive because it was time to bake the Goodies — rocky road, fudge, divinity, peanut butter cups, a cereal mix coated with melted marshmallows, and fruitcake. The number of people who sampled these goodies grew larger each year.
When she and Ralph moved up on the hill, there weren't too many houses on their street and Bonnie loved to look out the kitchen window. Seasons came and went and eventually up went the houses, but she still loved to look out the window and see who might be going by and who might be stopping in …for that cup of coffee and a sweet.
She is survived by her granddaughter Tracy Spencer of Milwaukie, Ore., grandson Tim Nistler of Sierra Madre, Calif., and two sisters Toots (Myrle) Kroshe of Winona, Minn., and Betty O'Connor of Bend, Ore. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Nistler in 1984, son Gary Nistler in 1970, and brothers Ralph Butzman, Felix Butzman, and Benedict "Ben" Wehlage.
Prineville Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
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