Bonnie K. Thraen Retired office manager Bonnie Kay Thraen , 59 , of 55 Round Top Road , Waynesville , died Thursday , May 4 , 2000 , at her home A native of Philadelphia , Pa. , she was a daughter of the late Albert W. Parsons and Ethel Mae Albright Parsons. She retired as office manager of Garrett-Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. She had spent most of her life in Hackettstown , N.J. , where she was the first woman elected to the Washington township committee and the first woman elected as mayor of Washington township. She was a member of Waynesville Kiwanis Club. She was a reporter for the Dover Advance Newspaper and did a radio station interview show. She owned the Primrose Lane Flower Shop and the Coffee Grinder in New Jersey. She moved to Waynesville in 1994 and was a family service director at Garrett-Hillcrest Cemetery for two years. She was then given the job of office manager and retired in June of 1998. She was preceded in death by a brother , John Franklin Robison ; and a son , John Albert Eberhart. Surviving are her husband of four years , David Thraen ; one brother , David Martin of Dayton , Ohio ; two sisters , Joan Dodamead of Cypress Gardens , Fla. , and Patty Ross of Yatesville , Ga. ; two sons , William Scott Eberhart of Lake Hopateng , NJ , and Robert David and his wife , Susan Eberhart of Morris Plains , NJ ; four daughters , Karen Lynne and her husband , Jim Pierce of Slippery Rock , Pa. , Cathy and her husband , Rick Williams of Conyers , Ga. , Jayne Thraen of Duluth , Ga. , and Barb and her husband , Ron Holt of Conyers , Ga. ; and five grandchildren. Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Garrett-Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. The Revs.
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