Bonnie Ruth Everhart was born to Clinton Harrold Everhart and Frances Fern (Phares) Everhart on August 24, 1930, in Utica, Kansas. Bonnie died peacefully at her home in Fayetteville, on Sunday, September 5, 2021.

She was the oldest of six children. She had three brothers and two sisters. Her parents moved the family to Dodge City, Kansas, where Bonnie graduated from high school. In the summer of 1948, while working at Albonet Café, she met the love of her life, Donald W. Vail. They married two years later on Christmas Eve, 1950, at First United Methodist Church in Dodge City. Bonnie and Don moved to Missouri to the Vail family farm and in 1955 moved to Bethany, Oklahoma, where they raised their four children. In retirement, they moved to Yukon, Oklahoma. They finally settled in Northwest Arkansas in 2010 where she lived until she died in her home. Bonnie was first and foremost a wife and mother and stayed home until her youngest started grade school. She worked in the Public Relations office of Bethany Nazarene College from 1969 to 1974. Soon after, she began working at the Deaconess Home of Redeeming Love, a branch of the Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City, a work she loved dearly and thought of as her ministry. Even up to her death she continued to receive letters and emails from families whose lives were impacted by her service. Bonnie was an active member of the Church of the Nazarene. She proudly served her church and had many friends from Calvary Nazarene Church in Bethany, Mustang First Church of the Nazarene in Mustang, Oklahoma, and, most recently, Fayetteville First Church of the Nazarene in Fayetteville. Through the years, she served as a Sunday School teacher, sang in the choir, worked with the women's ministry, and was always willing to cook a meal to take to someone sick or invite a family over for a meal. She was never too tired to cook or entertain. In retirement, she played the piano for the Silver Chord Choir, a prime-timers group at the Salvation Army Senior Center that traveled throughout the community to sing at different nursing homes.

Bonnie is preceded in death by her parents, Clinton and Fern Everhart, her brother Vernon and his wife Dorothy Everhart, her brother Delwin Everhart, brothers-in-law Gene Eastin and Don Wilson, and one great grandchild, Micah Martinez.

Bonnie is survived by her husband, Donald W. Vail; one daughter, Sheila Trusch and her husband Nick of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; three sons Clinton W. Vail and his wife Shirley of Perkins, Oklahoma, Geron R. Vail and his wife Brenda of Fayetteville, and Jarrell A. Vail of Boise, Idaho; one brother, Kenny Everhart and his wife Shirley of Winfield, Kansas; two sisters, Myrna Eastin of Salt Lake City, UT, and Barbara Wilson of Salina, Kansas; one sister-in-law Virginia Everhart of Dodge City, KS; six grandchildren, Andrea Wilson and her husband John, Dustin Vail, Terah Munstermann and her husband Dane, Kelby Vail, Nacey York, and LaDawn Martinez; eleven great grandchildren, Caleb, Dane, and Allie Wilson, Linus and Florence Vail, Dylan Vail, Payton Castle, Adison York, Malachi Martinez, Elijah Martinez, and Brooke Goldberg. Bonnie also has many nieces, nephews, cousins, great nieces and nephews, and many friends from her current church community and her former church home and work in Oklahoma City, Bethany, and Yukon. She had the most wonderful caregivers whom she loved: Nancy Valencia, Annette French, Lucy Escobedo, and Judith Gomez.

A visitation will be 1 p.m. Friday, September 10, at Fayetteville First Church of the Nazarene followed by a funeral service at 2 p.m. at the church. Interment will be at Mt. Comfort Cemetery in Fayetteville. Bearers will be Dustin Vail, John Wilson, Dane Munstermann, Kelby Vail, Lino Gomez, Dane Wilson, and Caleb Wilson. Memorial contributions may be made to  Children's Vision International  or to the  missions program  at Fayetteville First Church of the Nazarene.