Bonnie was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Marjorie S. Caroll and Edward Joseph Mueller on February 5, 1944. She went to school at Walt Whitman HS in Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated from Dumbarton College in Washington DC.
She worked as a Subject Cataloger for the Library of Congress for 35 years.
Bonnie is survived by a brother Stephen E. Mueller and a sister Diane M. Kazuba.