Cover for Bonnie Jean Ezerski's Obituary

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Bonnie Jean

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Ezerski

Jan 2, 1925 — Aug 6, 2011

Obituary

Memorial service for Bonnie Jean Ezerski, 86, Lawton will be at 4:30 PM Monday, August 8, 2011 at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Mrs. Ezerski died Saturday, August 6, 2011 in Lawton. Arrangements are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. She was born on January 2, 1925 to Horace and Madeline Breier in Reading, PA. Her family moved to Indiana and she graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, IN in 1942. After high school, she moved to Detroit, MI to be closer to her sister, Shirlee. In Detroit, she began a modeling career. She posed for several department store catalogues and newspaper advertisements. She met Bruno Ezerski and they married on March 9, 1946 in Detroit. They had three children and she worked several part time jobs while raising her children. In 1962, the family moved to La Grange, IL, a suburb of Chicago, and she had a fourth child. In Illinois her love for art and fashion really blossomed. She had started dabbling in art after high school, but began painting in earnest in the 1970s. She completed several paintings and created several other projects while involved with a Chicago area group called Creative Home Arts. She also worked for a women's clothing store for many years near La Grange. She then became a bookkeeper for Bruno's business and then another company through the early 1980's before retiring. She loved to travel and she and Bruno visited Paris, France, England, Hawaii, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. In 2002, she moved to Tucson, AZ to be closer to her daughters and then moved to Lawton in 2006. She is survived by three children and their spouses; Judith A. Tatman and Greg, West Linn, Oregon, Patricia Ezerski and Randy Campbell, Tucson, Arizona and Barry Ezerski and Lori Parks, Lawton, four grandchildren, Liz Tran, Andy Tatman, Rachel Campbell and Kevin Ezerski, a brother, Barrie Breier, Mexico and a sister, Nancy Breier, New Jersey. She was preceded in death by her son, Bruce Ezerski, her parents and her sister, Shirlee Teasdale. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Parkinson Disease Foundation, 135 Parkinson Ave., Staten Island, NY 10305 or to Faith Hospice, 1925 W. Gore, #B, Lawton, OK 73501

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