Bonnie Mary Walsh EwingFebruary 21, 1919 ~ August 3, 2009 Bonnie Ewing, 90, of Woodway, passed away August 3, 2009. Services will be 2 p.m., Friday, August 7, 2009 at Connally/Compton Funeral Directors Chapel with the Rev. Shelton Markham officiating. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, August 5, with the family receiving visitors from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Bonnie Mary Walsh was born on February 21, 1919 to Ellen Elizabeth Markwick and John McPherson Walsh in Waco. On November 12, 1940 she married the love of her life, Newton Campbell Ewing Jr. She graduated from Texas State College for Women with a teaching degree and taught her first year in Downsville. After her daughter started school, Bonnie went back to teaching at McGregor Elementary for 18 years. As is many times the case, this teacher made such an impact on the lives she taught until she was still in touch with one of her student's from 1940! One of the nurses that cared for her turned out to be one of her former 3rd grade students who was pleased to show her what she had done with her life. After her husband died in December of 1987, Bonnie met some people in her aerobics class and began clogging. She was the oldest clogger in the state of Texas. She was a charter member of Daughters of the Nile. Bonnie and her husband were founding members of North Waco Baptist Church although she held membership at Western Heights Baptist Church at the time of her death. Preceding her in death were her husband, "Cam"; and sisters, Florence DuPriest, Sidney White and Mildred Laird. Left behind to cherish her memory are daughter, Linda and husband, James L. Leslie of Woodway; grandchildren, Dominic Abeyta, Bonnie Lynn Abeyta, James Michael Leslie and Paula Jo Leslie; great-grandchildren, Annie Eileen Leslie, Jamie Michelle Leslie, Jessica Jo Leslie, Abbigail Rose Leslie, Nicholas Leon Jones, Anthony Michael Jones and Jaeden Michael Abeyta; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Dominic and Gilbert Abeyta, Wendell Davis, James Michael Leslie, Bill Moeller, and Joshua Phillips. Honorary pallbearers are Brazos Valley Cloggers, Mel Cunningham, James Howell and Rick Altum. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to Hillcrest Hospice, 3115 Pine Ave., Suite 408, Waco, Texas 76708.