Bonnie Lee Mantooth

Bonnie Lee Mantooth passed away on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the age of 92 after hospitalization for pneumonia, followed by a brief stay in a skilled nursing facility where her condition unfortunately worsened. She was placed in hospice care April 10th.

Bonnie was born June 10, 1932, in Yuma, Colorado. She moved with her parents, Forest and Helen Burke and her beloved sister, Juanita, between Yuma and Denver several times before permanently settling in Denver where she attended West High School. Bonnie married Robert Mantooth in June 1955 and raised three children, Cynthia, Pam and Bob. Throughout her life, Bonnie enjoyed tennis, swimming, bridge, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Bonnie remained close to her high school friends while building lasting friendships with neighbors, fellow bridge players, and church members at Denver’s First Avenue Presbyterian Church where she was a member most of her life. Bonnie remained active, swimming several times a week until Covid closed her favorite pool, and she was in as many bridge groups as she could find. She was a loving Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, showing kindness to everyone she met until her last day on earth.

Bonnie worked as a bookkeeper and administrator at an insurance company in her 20’s after receiving a business certificate from the University of Denver. As the insurance company changed owners from father to son and then was sold, Bonnie remained with the insurance agency and cherished her co-workers as she did her family and friends. Bonnie moved out of her home on Zenobia Street in Denver and into an assisted living apartment at Bethesda Gardens in Thornton, Colorado in the summer of 2021, and moved to a memory care apartment in the same location in May of 2024. The care she received in the memory care unit of Bethesda Gardens was amazing and the staff and director couldn’t have been better. We are thankful for the care she received.

Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents, Forest and Helen Burke, her sister Juanita Winterhalder and Juanita’s husband Roy, her mother and father-in law, Delma and Edward Mantooth, and many of her wonderful friends and neighbors. Bonnie is survived by her ex-husband Robert Mantooth, daughters Cynthia Zamora of Argyle, TX and Pam Mantooth of The Woodlands, TX and her son Bob (Annie) Mantooth of Thornton, CO, her five grandchildren, Aaron (Yvonne) Zamora of Argyle, TX, Lisa Yeager of Denton, TX, Emma, Sophie and Julia Mantooth of Thornton, CO, as well as three great grandchildren, Olivia and Pearson Zamora of Argyle, TX and Kendal Flint of Savannah, TX. She is also survived by her four nieces and their spouses, Sandi (Bill) Meier, Donna (Larry) Hill, Linda (Charlie) Miller and Debbie Reisbeck-Stone as well as their children and grandchildren.

The Funeral Service will be held Friday, May 16th at 10:00 am at Olinger Crown Hill, officiated by her pastor, Reverend Harlan VanOort, with burial at Crown Hill.

We will all miss her, but we are grateful she was able to be with us so long and provide her loving presence. We are happy she is at rest, surrounded by family and playing bridge in heaven with her friends. What a reunion that must have been.