KANAB, UT<! > - The family of Edith Cram Bonham laid to rest their mother and grandmother on Monday, October 1, 2001, in Kanab.
Edith passed peacefully in Kanab. She was 87 years old.
Born Oct. 10, 1913, in Kanab to parents Alexander Smith Cram and Margaret Swapp, Edith became an accomplished and elegant woman who most enjoyed her family and her southern Utah pioneer heritage.
She married Gilbert "Abe" C. Bonham on July 26, 1931, in Parowan, Utah. She was the mother of two sons and a daughter and enjoyed five grandchildren and one great-grandson.
An avid entrepreneur, she owned and operated several Kanab businesses with her husband, Abe, during their 64-year marriage. She was a talented seamstress, enjoyed traveling and spent many of her later years lovingly renovating her childhood family home in Kanab.
Edith was preceded in death by her husband and life partner, Gilbert "Abe" C. Bonham, in 1996; an infant son; her parents; and siblings Ormand Cram, Emeron Cram and Iva Maddox.
She is survived by sons Alex (Sally) Bonham and Jim (Angie) Bonham, all of Kanab; daughter Pamalla (Jim) Barber of Newberry Springs, Calif.; five grandchildren, Nicole (Kent) Colby, Alex Bonham Jr., Aaron (Colette) Bonham, Kacie (Wes) Troy, Scott Barber and one great-grandson, Easton James Bonham; sisters Hazel (Slim) Flemming and Margaret Tennant, both of northern Utah; and brother Cecil (Myra) Cram of Fredonia, AZ.
Funeral services Monday Oct. 1st at 10 a.m. in the Kanab North Stake Center where friends may call from 8:45-9:45 a.m. Viewing Sunday from 7-8 p.m. at Mosdell Mortuary.