Eve Louise Bonner

Eve Louise Bonner was born on July 14, 1946, and moved from this life into the next on January 22, 2026. She was the second of four children. All three of her parents Betty Jane Gooding (Bonner/Morris), Royal Kenneth Bonner, and stepfather Finis Clark Morris, preceded her in death. Her beloved husband, Anthony Sbarounis, also preceded her in death.

Her siblings, Sandra Kay Large, Paulette Morris, and Jeffrey Lynn Bonner, survive and miss her terribly. As do her brother and sisters in law, Philip Large, Nichole Rae and Susie Campbell; her daughters and sons, Christine Overly, Cindy and Wayne Mularz, Georgette Sbarounis, John Sbarounis, Carl Sbarounis, fourteen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren; nieces and nephews, Lori Jane and Dan Richards, Cari Lynn and Tim Stakem, Merideth Leigh and Darrell Anderson, Crissa Bonner and Randy, Rachell and David Smitherman, Mallory and Derrick Leiting and eleven grand nieces and nephews.

She had a relatively rough start—childhood poverty and a transient life that poverty often brings. Eve decided she would live a different kind of life. She wasn't a person who had to work hard to get good grades in school, so she got good grades and went to work in high school. She had an innate sense of money management and liked the feeling financial independence gave her. She graduated early from high school and went to work at Shell Oil for a couple of years as a secretary. Then in 1967, she applied to be a flight attendant ("stewardess" as they were called then) for United Airlines and started "stew school" that February. Eve retired from United Airlines in March of 2002 after 35 years.

What a career she had! She traveled the world and even though it was hard work she never got tired of traveling. She was first based in Los Angeles, then New York and Denver, and then back to Los Angeles. She worked domestic trips for the first couple of years and then started flying internationally. She loved Europe and especially Paris. She was there so often that in the early 1980s, she wrote and produced a walking tour of Paris on cassette tape. Unfortunately, it was not published widely, but she was thrilled just to be able to do it and to pass on her love of Paris to her friends and family.

Eve lived the high life for the first 12 years as a flight attendant. But in 1981, she got sober through the Twelve Steps and was deeply committed to living a life of honesty, integrity, and service. She threw all of her energy into living the sober life. She was an Employee Assistance Program Representative for the American Flight Attendants Union for several years and was dedicated to helping her coworkers find a better life and recover from alcoholism and drug addiction. She was sober 45 years when she died.

She helped countless people find recovery and live a life of integrity, change, and growth through the Twelve Steps. She lived a rich, full, and varied spiritual life, which she shared freely with those she loved, mentored and befriended.

She was and is beloved... and she is deeply missed.