Bonnie Brown Lofton

Lula Bonnie Bell Brown Lofton, 87, of Macedonia, widow of Ernest E. Lofton, passed away Saturday, February 28, 2015, at her residence with her children by her side.

Mrs. Bonnie was born January 27, 1928, in Laurence County Georgia, a daughter of Charlie Stanley Brown and Annie Livingston Brown.

She was a loving mother and faithful sister, a member of Oak Grove P.H. Church where she served as a Sunday school teacher for over 50 years. She loved teaching her teenage Sunday School class. She especially enjoyed when she and her best friend Margaret Hood along with H.J. Caddell would take the class to the mountains each Summer. She was a member of the Macedonia community where she was surrounded by people she came to know and love as close as brothers and sisters.
There was always a special place in her heart for the neighbors and families that stepped in to take care of her children during her long cancer illness; Bessie and Larry Gaskins, Ruth and Legrand Gaskins, Belma and Frank Price, Alton and Bell Gaskins, Perry and Lila Bobo, Led and Collie Wyndham and Aunt Mamie and Uncle Daniel Lofton.

After raising her own children, Mrs. Bonnie went to work for the First Baptist Daycare Center, where she fell in love with all of the babies she kept. Soon after, the pictures of her daycare children replaced the ones of her own children on the walls of her home.

Letter from Home: March 1, 2015
Last night we cried, my sister, brother and I for our Mom was called home. As day broke, I realized this was the first day of our lives without our Mom! What will be do? We will do what she has taught us to do all of our lives! Pray, love, make sure each other is okay, remember, laugh, cherish, call family and friends, make the arrangements that she wanted, and take care of the day. Cry some more for this is the first day of our lives without our Mom! We will pray for us to make this day and tomorrow will do much the same. And yes cry some more for that will be the second day of our lives without our Mom!
Bonnie Bell Brown Lofton
We love you and we miss you!
Mae, C.W. and Robert

Surviving are a daughter- Mae L. Hill and her husband, Milton, of Moncks Corner; 2 sons- C.W. Lofton of Macedonia and Robert Lofton and his wife, Cindy, also of Macedonia; a loving and devoted baby sister- Patricia Donaldson of Register, Ga.; 7 Grandchildren; 9 Great Grandchildren. She was predeceased by 4 sisters- Pearl Lowery, Nell Langdon, Carolyn Cooper Tanner, Bernease Brown; 3 brothers- Clarence Brown, James Carvin Brown and Charlie Reese Brown.

Her funeral service will be held at Oak Grove P.H. Church, Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 12 noon. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday evening, March 4, 2015 between 6 and 8 o’clock.