Bonny L Colton

Bonny L Colton

1959-03-16 1993-07-20




The funeral for Bonny L. Colton, an Asotin resident who died of injuries received in a traffic accident Sunday, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel at Lewiston. The Rev. J. Stanley Lyman will officiate.



Burial will follow at Normal Hill Cemetery.



Colton, 34, suffered head injuries in the accident two miles north of Craigmont on U.S. Highway 95.



She was born March 16, 1959, in Landstuhl, Germany, to Ralph E. and Judy Roark Colton. She lived in Germany for the first eight months of her life and from 1959 to 1963, she traveled with her family as her father worked in oil field construction in Venezuela and Oklahoma.



In 1963, she moved to Boise and in 1969, to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. She graduated from Lewiston High School in 1977. She was a member of Job's Daughters and served as a past worthy adviser and also was a member of the Rainbow Girls Twin Rivers chapter of Lewiston.

She was a page in the state Legislature.



From 1978 to 1989, she attended the University of Idaho, where she was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority. She was house manager there for a time and served as Panhellenic rush director in 1980.

She attended Lewis-Clark State College in 1991. She had recently completed the requirements to become a state certified residential appraiser and was employed at Judy Thiessen Appraisals.

She and Michael P. Therrian were married May 19, 1984, and they later divorced.



Survivors include her father and stepmother, Ralph and Victoria Colton of McCall; her mother and stepfather, Judy and Gene Thiessen of Asotin; two daughters, McKinzie and Molly Therrian, both of Asotin; two sons, Colton and Murphy Therrian, both of Asotin; a sister, Cathy Colton of Lewiston; a stepbrother, Dan Thiessen of Erlenbach, Switzerland; three stepsisters, Lorrie Sundquist of South Dakota, Cheri Haener of Boise and Krystin Erickson of McCall; her paternal grandparents of Lewiston and maternal grandfather of Oklahoma City.

The family suggests memorials be contributions to an educational fund set up for her children at both Lewiston branches of First Federal Bank of Idaho.

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