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Florence Bonifield Speed Obituary

Graduation Year Class of 1922
Date of Passing Jul 27, 1966
About Born January 2, 1906, in Zanesville, Ohio, the daughter of Frank and Ethel Bonifield. Married Rudoph (Rudy) Speed.

Mrs. Florence (Peggy) Speed, 60, of 708 Frankling Ave., Belpre, died at 5 am Wednesday (July 27) at the Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg, WV, after a long illness.

Born in Gratiot on January 2, 1906, she was the daughter of Frank and Ethel Bell Bonifield. She was a former first and second grade teacher at the Monroe School. She left Zanesville in 1948 to teach in Atlanta, Georgia and returned to the Parkersburg area in 1961. She was a member of the Belpre Methodist Church. Her Husband, Rudy Speed died in 1949.

Surviving are a brother, James R. Bonifield of the Zane Motor Inn; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Williams of 950 1/2 Orchard St., and Mrs. W. L. (Kathryn) Gorley of Caldwell, Idaho; a sister-in-law with whom she made her home, Mrs. John (Edna) Bonifield; and several nieces and nephews
Florence Bonifield Speed