Individual Details

Bonnie's older brother Worthie Elwood Briles recalls that his family's third home in Texas was in the Glendarden area, which was in the southern part of Fort Worth and south of the old Masonic Home, which was an orphanage. Elwood recalls that they lived there about a year when his sister Bonnie Bell was born on October 29, 1922. He thinks that the family lived there for a couple of more years before moving to the "5-Acre Place." That would mean that the family moved to the "5-Acre Place" in about 1923 or 1924. See the "Note" for Worthie Elwood Briles for more information on the family's "5-Acre Place."

The list of attendees of the August 4, 1974 Briles Reunion indicates that Bonnie and her husband J. D. Spencer attended the reunion and and gives their address as 1195 Gunter in Beaumont, Texas.

Bonnie (like her brother Jack) inherited her father's artistic abilities: she has created a number of very good paintings, including at least one of the "5-Acre-Place."

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Birth	29 Oct 1922	Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Marriage	1 Jul 1942	San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas - James Dorwin Spencer
Marriage	15 Apr 1985	Beaumont, Texas - Jerome M. Stokes
Death	31 Jan 2014	Pelican Bay Assisted Living, Beaumont, Texas
Burial	4 Feb 2014	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Texas

Spouse	James Dorwin Spencer (1920 - )
Child	Rodney Guy Spencer (1955 - )
Child	Gary Mitchell Spencer (1957 - )

Spouse

Jerome M. Stokes ( - )

Father	Worthie Harwood Briles (1894 - 1979)
Mother	Leona Hays Connally (1896 - 1980)
Sibling	Worthie Elwood Briles (1918 - 2016)
Sibling	Connally Oran Briles (1919 - 2010)
Sibling	Van Gordon Briles (1926 - 1990)
Sibling	Jack David Briles (1930 - 2005)
Sibling	Leona Jean "Jeanie" Briles (1935 - 2020)