I miss your smile and sense of humor.  We sold your house.  Going thru all the stuff you  and Dad collected in your Fifty-two years of marriage sparks so many memories.  

You were awe inspiring parents! So much more love filled memories than negative ones. That is no accident. It’s no accident to raise seven kind hearted, giving, smart children to adulthood.  

I know how extremely blessed I am to be a child of William and Bonnie Ford.  It’s the end of an era (our Camelot).

Now with everything you instilled in me I will start a new era! 

Love you infinity times infinity Mom! 

Your loving daughter,
Cheryl

Mom - I found your letters! It was so kind, caring and thoughtful of you to do that.  You were always thinking of your loved ones and this proves it. 

Miss you, love you
Cheryl

Still missing you. But it does get better. 

Tomorrow will be one month sense you left your body, which is hard to process. Because it feels like yesterday. 

I don’t know exactly where you are. But I feel your presence and long to see you and hug you tighter than ever before. 

Your wonderful, gentle and kind spirit is and always has been a part of me! 

I love you infinity times infinity!

Very warm loving mom , who always was very kind too me. 

I called her mother ford because that's who she was to me. I remember when i was a little boy we would stay over each others house that my second home. One day i stayed the night is was dinner time and i saw my plate it had mash potatoes on it i don't eat mash potatoes so i stared at my plate. Mother Ford said babe what's wrong with a teary voice i said not eat mash potatoes. She said with loving voice baby you don't have to eat them and she removed them and gave me something else. That's just one the loving memories that I have a mother Ford.
Love you miss you mom!!!

We all knew this day would come.  It's hard tosay good-bye. I'm sure William was waiting for her.over the last 58 years I have known Bonnie she has raised her seven children to adult hood. All graduated High school & some graduated college. None. She has helped raise grand & great grand children.  God has called her home where there is pease, joy and happiness and no more pain. We will miss you. Little sister Helen (Ford) Lowe

I met Bonnie  twelve years ago and upon that first meeting I remember her warmth. She welcomed me into her home with a smile of friendship and acceptance. She made me feel like a part of the family every time I visited. She was a beautiful part of our world, one of its very best!

Bonnie was my wonderful tough aunt. I heard the stories about you don't mess with aunt Bonnie smiling. But it also hurts to no you are not here. I remember coming to the lovely city of Nevada to visit you and your family I loved coming there I miss your beautiful smile and hearing you laugh. You were a strong older sister and I no I took that from you I love an will truly miss you 😘😘😘 but now you have joined uncle Ford and our other family members crying but now I say goodbye.

Bonnie Ford was my mother in law. She was an intelligent, wise, no nonsense kind of woman. She would laugh and say to me "You are the other Mrs. Ford" 
William and I, spent countless Sunday afternoons at her house eating, learning, sharing, laughing, but most of all experiencing love, and gaining wisdom. She will be truly missed. Rest in Peace, and sleep on in Jesus.

Words cannot express my gratitude for my grandma Bonnie. She was  source of love, light and most of all: great laughter. I remember being young and watching her sit on the couch with her little white mug of black coffee that seemed to never empty.  I am deeply saddened that she is no longer here with us, but grateful knowing she has a place in heaven with Grandpa. I am sorry I cannot be there to send her off on her next journey,nor am I there to support you all, but I love you all very much and am there in spirit! 

Bonnie Ford was a great mother, she always supported her children 100 percent.  She was at home anywhere she was, and she wanted the best for herself and all of her children.  She was not a swimmer but she taught all of her children to swim.  She participated in the early marches to obtain the right to vote for African Americans.  She was very loyal and protective of her family,  and was taught to stand up for herself and anyone in the family.  She loved to go fishing, and dancing and her first home was next door to the local church.  She was raised in the church and all aspects of the church and choir.  Family and community service was key.  She was fearless and loved boxing and all aspects of martial arts. She loved football and basketball most, but also loved the Olympic games.  She was very intelligent and hard working and had no time for ignorance of any kind.  She was unique and a breath of fresh air and joy. She was loved and loving of others. She was the person who found me and saved my life when as a two year old I went into a refrigerator that was being cleaned out and I closed myself inside because I always wanted to know if the light went out when the door was closed. So I am only here alive because of her,  and I have eternally grateful for my mother. 

 I met Mrs. Ford when I was a child. I remember her always welcoming me. I looked at her as a second mom gave good advise when needed. Mrs Ford was a very loving and caring person and family was always her 1 priority. I will always have a place in my heart for her and will miss her much.

Bonnie Mae Ford was my Mom,a wife,aunt,sister and daughter but so much more than words can say,She was as sweet as the day is long just don't get on the wrong side of her because when Mama's not happy nobody's happy. Besides my Dad She was the strongest person I know,Mom could spend a little time with someone and know their character,She was very intuitive and almost psychic, I guess it should be expected since She was born in Louisiana but it shocked me every time something she told me was going to happen did.She was an earth bound Angel that loved me my entire life and I know is still loving me even right now,a hundred pounds socking wet but oh so heavy,like my Dad she was a pillar in not just my life but in the lives of many many people.She was smart,kind,funny,playful yet serious,with a presence you could feel and almost taste,a woman of class and style and wisdom beyond her years,with the voice of an literal Angel as me and my brothers found out as teenagers when we were trying to form a singing group,we were practicing and were thrown buy a voice that flat out out classed us all,it was Mom in the hallway doing laundry and She wasn't half trying, that's Mom in a nutshell,on another level and just playing around.A valedictorian,contralto,world traveler,who gave birth to "seven" kids and pretty much raised them on her own,alongside my Dad William Anthony Carver Ford taught their children to do right by people weather they deserve it or not and we all graduated from high school and most have gone to college and none of us are dead or in jail.Life with Bonnie was an adventure ,a mystery, a party, and She and Dad performed a million miracles that kept us going when we shouldn't have.I don't know what life will be without Her but I resign myself with the fact that I know that She and Dad will be watching over us and praying for us constantly,every day I hear something or see something that reminds me of you and I smile or laugh or wipe a tear from my eye.Love Ya Mom.

Very often in my Mother’s home you could hear her singing to herself or catch her dancing to music coming from the television or radio. Those memories mean the world to me! 

My mother, Bonnie, is a beautiful, happy soul.  She is the strongest woman I have ever met.  Her greatest strength in life was her sense of survival.  She moved forward and past horrendous barriers and challenges that would make lesser humans dissolve and surrender.  

Bonnie believed in God.  Bonnie believed in love.  Bonnie believed in forgiveness, kindness, and destiny.  As a mother she defended her children, her husband, and her family members with the ferocity of a lion.  And when circumstances gave her the time and ability to, she was gentle, caring, and sweet beyond compare.  

There have been so many times throughout my life when others attacked me.  Sought to diminish me, hurt my reputation, make me feel less than my true value.  My mother was always there to say "KEEP GOING! PICK YOURSELF UP! No one else beside yourself has an incentive to tell you how wonderful you are and how much you're worth.  You have to know that for yourself and KEEP MOVING FORWARD!"  In a time when woman and people of color we're institutionally brainwashed to believe they had no worth, when proactive racism and segregation were written into the laws of this country, my mother instilled in me and our family not just a sense of worth, but a CONFIDENCE that we can and will achieve ANYTHING we want to achieve.  For when God stands with, she dared another force to stand against you.

Bonnie Mae Ford ... a name that will live beyond human history and echo through the vibrations of the universe past eternity.  Beautiful, fearless, strong, and loving.  I love you before, now, and always, mother.  I will see you in the spirit world.  And we shall sing again.  Forever and always.  I am your faithful daughter and servant.  Love you, mama.

To my Beautiful Aunt Bonnie I would like to say you are truly an Angel and I know that you have taken your rightfully place with our heavenly father up above.i love you and you will be truly missed.I know you are in a better place no more medicine, no more sickness ,no more pain,no more suffering Amen!!!!God bless her lovely family, I will be praying for strength in your time of need.i love y'all cousin pie.

My Mother was born in a very tough time where your gender and skin color could cause you to think less of yourself.  And that would impact what you believed to be possible. 

But Bonnie Mae Darby became valedictorian of her High School. Afterwards she met and married my Dad. A young Air Force Airman who literally take her around the world! 

Together William and Bonnie Ford built a family that they devoted their lives to. Parenting the best way they knew how. Which was to love their children, work very hard and always do their best.

What I want the world to really understand is how much bravery it took for my Mother to step out what might have been her life. She held hands with my Dad and everywhere he was deployed SHE made a house and Home for her husband and children. No easy task. 

She cooked, she cleaned, she organized birthday parties and made sure we were all well. With seven children there was always one more thing that needed to be done. 

Mom there’s no one like you! You were brave, smart, hard working and soft hearted. 

I will never say good-bye. Instead I say safe journey - Job well done.



my condolences to the entire Ford family. Bonnie was a wonderful soul that touched the hearts of many. my favorites things was how she would swirl her pepsi, and her amazing laugh that would bring joy to everyone. safe journey to the other side of the camp. xoxo
Lisa

Praying for the family. Bonnie was a beautiful and kind woman, very soft spoken. Bonnie always made us feel like family. I remember going to her house she would always make time for me so we  could sit on the floor play ball/Jacks, in between her cooking and being a mother,  wife. I never forget you. Love always  Sylvia.

Mother ford thats what i called her!! I remember once i was staying the night. we're about to have dinner mother ford fixed our plates. l looked up and there was mash potatoes on my plate. i just stared at them and mother ford said karl whats wrong. I said in a teary voice i don't eat mash potatoes and she said baby you don't have to eat them if you don't want to. And she took them off my  plate. She was such a loving and warm person thats some of the things i remember about mother ford.

To the Ford and Darby Familes: my memory of growing up in Jack’s Quarters in Bossier City are bittersweet at this time. The Darby family ( Bonnie), her parents an siblings were a part of our everyday growing up experience. Along with the Brown and Robinson/Roberson familes we worshiped at Temple Baptist Church. As life would have it we all ventured in different directions, but the roots of our up bringing cannot be separated. I’m sending hugs and prayers for the loss of our family member. May God continue to Bless you all!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
aka Viola Robinson 

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Parents:                                                  
Annie Dell (deceased)                            
Charlie (deceased)                                 
                                                               
Children:                                                 
Allen                                                       
William                                                   
Cheryl 
Steven                                                                                                    
Kevin                                                     
Kimberly
Regina 

Siblings:
Oscar (deceased)
Don (deceased)
George (deceased)
Bra. Charlie, Jr. (Deceased)
Mojo
Mickey
Vera
Charlotte (deceased)
Patsy (deceased)                                                  
                                                               
Grandchildren:                                       
Xierra                                                     
Seryna                                                   
Elle                                                        
Nevaeh
Iris                                                          
Chris         
Stephanie

Great-Grandchildren:
Jovahn
Charlotte
Clara Lynn

In-laws:
David
Renda
Helen
Linda
Lydia

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Bonnie Mae Ford

March 18, 1941 – August 16, 2018

Palm Downtown Mortuary & Cemetery

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