~ IN MEMORY ~
Military veteran, DL Capt. Kent L. Bonney
December 18, 1940 ~ January 14, 2025
Captain Kent L. Bonney
of Chatham, Massachusetts, passed away on January 14, 2025, having lived his 84
years to the fullest.
Kent Louis Bonney joined
Delta Air Lines 06-02-1969 and was based ATL.
He is survived by his wife Anne, and by his children and their families.
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https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/chatham-ma/kent-bonney-12198980
Kent Bonney Obituary
Kent L. Bonney of
Chatham, Massachusetts, passed away on January 14, 2025, having lived his 84
years to the fullest. Born in Mount Kisco, New York in 1940 to Sherwood M. and
Harriet (Brady) Bonney, he was raised in Scarsdale, New York, where he was
classmates and then sweethearts with his future wife, Anne Garey. He graduated
Mount Hermon High School and then attended Lehigh University. Around this time,
he began visiting Anne in Chatham for summers, where he worked at Nickerson's
Fish & Lobster on the pier and at Howard Johnson's in Orleans. Kent
graduated from Lehigh in 1962 as a member of ROTC with a major in Finance. He
soon joined the US Air Force as a pilot and married his beloved Anne in 1964.
They moved to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where he flew C130s and C141s
to Europe, and then later in Vietnam. In 1969, he took a job as a pilot for
Delta Airlines in Atlanta, GA where he worked for 32 years. He and Anne raised
their family in north Atlanta: son, Curtis Warren, daughter, Laurel Anne, and
son, John Louis. In 1978, he and Anne purchased a 2nd home in Chatham - a fixer
with a tractor in the shed and a '51 Cadillac in the garage. He and his family
spent summers on the Cape; when Kent retired from Delta in 2000, he and Anne
moved there, full-time.
Kent loved being on the
water. In retirement, he and Anne cruised Florida and the Bahamas over several
years in his 42-foot trawler, Windsong. In Chatham, he fished for blues and
bass at the south end of Monomoy, whenever the weather permitted, and even when
it did not. He found peace and harmony in nature - whether walking the trails
and beaches of Boca Grande, Florida and Cape Cod, digging for clams at low
tide, or photographing pelicans at sunrise. He loved music and sang baritone in
several choral groups both in Chatham and in Boca Grande, as well as the First
Congregational Church choir in Chatham. He was an athlete - a runner for many
years, and a long-time tennis regular at the Boca Grande Club and the Chatham
Beach and Tennis Club. Kent was a lifelong volunteer, helping out with church
and community functions in Atlanta, Boca Grande, and Chatham. He volunteered
for Habitat for Humanity, hauled pumpkins for Halloween and boxed up Christmas
decorations at the First Congregational Church. He chaired Chatham's first
night celebration and later worked with the Chatham Democratic Committee.
Kent's warmth and
enthusiasm lit up the room; he never met a stranger he didn't come to know. His
curiosity and laughter were contagious; his love, generosity, and support for
colleagues, friends and family, kids and (6) grandkids, were unbounded, a legacy
for all those who knew him.
He is survived by his
sister, Jean (Bonney) Smith, his beloved wife of 60 years, Anne (Garey) Bonney
and their 3 children: Curtis W. Bonney, his wife, Sonnet Retman, and their 2
daughters, Ava and Sylvie; Laurel A. Bonney, her husband, Mark Semon, and their
2 children, James and Daphne, and John L. Bonney, his wife, Erica Bonney, and
their 2 daughters, Lila and Cate.
A memorial service in
celebration of Kent's life will be held at the First Congregational Church of
Chatham on Feb 20th at 1:00 pm.
In lieu of flowers,
donations can be sent to the First Congregational Church in Chatham, the
Chatham Labyrinth, or the Chatham Harvesters Cooperative Food Pantry Fish
Share.
For online condolences,
please visit Nickerson Funeral Homes at www.nickersonfunerals.com
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