The name " Bonita" means "beautiful" and more apt name could not have chosen for the pretty baby girl born to Helen Aurelia Thompson and Stephen Henry Hamlin on September 26, 1957. Bonita accepted Christ at a young age at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Guthrie, Oklahoma where she remained a member her entire life. The beautiful Bonita attended Guthrie High School from which she graduated in 1975. It was there she met the love of her life Bruce Stevenson, whom she married on November 24, 1975. Their union resulted in six children, Nikki, Joann, Andrea, Grace, Stephen and Samson before they traveled their life journeys separately for a time beginning in 1992. However, Bruce and Bonita rekindled their romance and remarried in January, 2014. Bonita pursed various occupations in her life, including key punch operator, technical support specialist, and bookkeeper, and even achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Network Management and a Master's in Computer Information Systems. But the role she enjoyed most was that of a devoted and beloved mother and grandmother. Her children and grandchildren were the light of her life and supplied her greatest joy. Bonita was preceded in death by her mother, Helen Bolton Moore, and her brother, Harold Bolton, Jr. In addition to her husband, Bruce, Bonita is survived by her father, Stephen Henry Hamlin; one sister, Thedda Davis; brothers, Ronald Bolton (Vivian) and Barrett Davison; her six children, Nikki Stevenson, Joann Worthington (Rod), Andrea Stevenson, Grace Stevenson, Stephen Stevenson, and Samson Stevenson; 12 grandchildren; and a host of friends and family.






?When I Must Leave You

?When I must leave you for a little while, please do not grieve and shed wild tears, and hug your sorrow to you through the years. But start out bravely with a gallant smile; And for my sake and in my name live on and do all things the same. Feed not your loneliness on empty days, but fill each waking hour in useful ways. Reach out your hand in comfort and in cheer, and I in turn will comfort you and hold you near. For I am waiting for you in the sky!