Yvonne DePratter

Our Mother Yvonne was born in Austin, TX on February 11, 1939 to Violet and Horrace Werth Platt. She was one of seven children. Her nickname was Bonnie and almost everyone knew her by that name. While at Baker and McCallum High School in Austin she was a cheerleader and part of the yearbook staff that produced the Baker Rocket. Her family moved to Llano, TX while Bonnie was still in High School and it was during this time she met her husband Doyle Marlowe DePratter.

As the story goes, Doyle was so smitten with Bonnie, he told everyone in Llano that Bonnie was his girlfriend and to stay away before he ever asked her on a date. They were married on January 14, 1956.

Bonnie and Doyle then moved to San Angelo, TX where Bonnie attended cosmetology school and became a licensed hairdresser. In 1963 they moved to Burleson, TX and purchased a home. Bonnie resided in their home for sixty years. Bonnie loved movies, theater, dancing and singing. Bonnie also loved raising her three children and was extremely involved in their school activities. Everyone who knew Bonnie would refer to her as kind and funny. She was a good wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. Bonnie loved her church First Christian in Burleson. She was active in the church with the women’s ministries and loved attending the women’s retreat each year in Athens, TX. Bonnie was the most devoted to her husband of 61 years Doyle, the love of her life. The two of them were a match made in heaven and after Doyle retired, they traveled together all over the U.S. by both car and train due to her fear of flying. Bonnie was proceeded in death by her parents Violet and Werth and her siblings Betty Jean Purvis, Bobby Ceder, Kemper Platt, Mary Ann Banks, Susan Gaines and Tommy Platt. She is survived by her daughter Dana Killmer and her husband Kent Killmer, her two sons Darrin DePratter of Burleson and Derek DePratter of Dallas, grandchildren Montana and Stevie Jo Killmer, great grandchildren Riley, Colton and Everett Killmer, brother-in-law Eddie Gaines and longtime caregiver and “adopted daughter” Virginia Shelton, nieces and nephews – Teresa DePratter, Cindy Banks, Kenneth Banks, Louis Gaines, Jacob Gaines and wife Jennifer, Monty Ceder and wife Sherry and cousins May Dell Griffith and Lamar Anderson.

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 20th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm at Laurel Land Funeral Home at 7100 Crowley Road, Fort Worth Texas 76134.

A celebration of life will be held the following day on Saturday, November 21st at 11:00 am at First Christian Church of Burleson, 601 SW Johnson Avenue, Burleson, TX with Richard Bryan officiating.

A reception will immediately follow the Celebration in the Family Life Center at First Christian Church.