Bonita Bartsch Bobelak Suppa (1935-2022) Warren High School class of 1954

 

1954 Dragon yearbook

 

Source:  Warren Times Observer

1967 Warren City Directory

• Bobelak Paul (Bonita) 1231 Yankee Bush Road

 1983 Warren City Directory

• Bonita and Ralph live in Irvine

The popularity of Bonita as a baby name is graphed here. Let's take a look at Darby

Source:  Social Security Administration

Darby debuted at #666 in 1994 and moved up to #499 in her sophomore frame, looking like she was going places.  But that's was as high as she went.  By 2003, she had fallen off the chart after just 9 years of competition. 

Other members of the class of 1954 (39):

2022

Robert Rieder.  (8/11)

Eleanor Wester Larsen.  (6/10)

Betty Lou Emerson Smith.  (6/1)

Sylvia Johnson Zavinski.  (3/22)

2021

Mary Pasquerette Zaffino.  (11/22)

Elaine Moore Larsen.  (9/17)

Margaret Hennessey Sorensen.  (5/21)

Margaret Scalise.  (4/29)

Marian Cable Rulander (4/24)

Nancy Zock Clark.  (2/16)

2020
Patricia Harrington McAvoy.  (8/5)

Elizabeth Ann Pasquino Deck.  (2/22)
Beatrice Brown Bines.  (1/26)

2019
Margaret Eaton Watts.  (10/30)
Mary Alice Morse Akif.  (10/1)
Sally Nelson Metzger.  (8/1)
Phoebe Marie Jewell Ahlgren.  (4/29)
David Neal Redmond.  (3/4)

2018
Roberta Cable Anderson.  (11/3)
Patrick Michael Sheehan.  (9/19)
Charles Salerno.  (3/19)
Joan White Wood.  (2/12)
Janet Lauffenberger Day.  (2/11)

2017
Georgeanne Pappas Kornreich.  (11/27)
Anita Miller Smith.  (10/25)
Michelene Figliuzzi Colgrove.  (6/1)
James Hornstrom.  (3/9)
Richard Latimer.  (1/31)
Guard Pierce.  (1/24)

2016
Thomas Gray.  (10/16)
Franklin Ristau.  (4/21)

Richard Helmbrecht.  (3/27)
Luella Wert Wile.  (3/15)
Edward Erickson.  (3/4)

2015
Keith Otterbein.  (7/20)
Marlene Ceriola English.  (6/28)

2014

Robert Johnson.  (8/10)

Lois Egger Anderson McDanel.  (6/23)

Phillip Stewart.  (2/20)

Paul Bobelak (1928-2022) Warren High School class of 1947

 

1947 Dragon yearbook

Donald Lewis Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

• Paul, Bonita and Barbara live at 1231 Yankee Bush Road

1983 Warren City Directory

• Paul and Cheryl live at 200 Smutz Road in Conewango Township

The popularity of Paul as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at Claire.

Source:  Social Security Administration

It was a bumpy ride, but after her debut in 1903, Bonita eventually climbed into the top 300, where she spent 18 years (1940-1957), peaking at #181 in 1950.

Other Class of '47 graduates (38):

2022

Dorothy Giancotti McCarthy.  (3/15)

Lena Constable.  (3/5)

2021

Audrey Myers Mader.  (12/14/)

Martin Sisk.  (6/2/2021)

Marjorie Shorts Wilbur.  (5/11)

William Hill, Jr.  (3/11)

Roger Sorensen.  (1/9)

2020
Yvonne Miller Bearfield Lee.  (10/28)
Mary Lou Blair Peterson.  (10/1)

Jeanne Anthony Soliday.  (4/13) 
Jacquelyn Smith Cunningham.  (3/10)
Martha Winans.  (1/12)

2019
James Johnson.  (11/1)
Richard Morrison.  (8/6)
Richard Blair.  (6/25)
Mary Ann Gnagey Masterson.  (5/30)
Roscoe Knapp.  (5/18)
LeRoy Marti.  (3/7)

2018
Bonnie Bauer Lucia.  (8/20)
David Lopez.  (6/20)
Alan Schuler.  (6/8)

2017

Agnes Porter Green.  (5/9)
Carolyn Johnson Sorenson.  (4/8)
Rose Gleason King Font.  (1/2)

2016
Thomas Hampson.  (12/22)
William Nordin.  (12/10)
Barbara Bova Kerr.  (11/22)
Wilbur Nordin.  (11/16)
Elwood Beckwith.  (10/28)
Robert Huck.  (3/24)
Lois Sigworth Conaway.  (3/23)
Leroy Weaver.  (1/26)

2015
Betty Uplinger Hagberg.  (10/4)
Betsi Conaway Preston Yerkes.  (6/15)
Frank Shanshala.  (4/28)

2014
Joyce Mack Phelps.  (12/2)
Henry Blick.  (8/29)

Kathleen Bloomquist Anderson.  (8/2)

Frances Cash VanVolkinburg.  (2/7)

Robert Songer.  (1/19)

Barbara Ann Bobelak Taylor (1942-2021) Warren Area High School class of 1961

 

1960 Dragon yearbook

Source:  Peterson Blick Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

• Anna, Barbara, Bonita, Paul and Steve Bobilak lives at 1231 Yankee Bush Road according to the county section

1983 Warren City Directory

The popularity of Barbara as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at Scott.

Source:  Social Security Administration

Scott struggled to gain a foothold during the 1st three decades of the 20th century.  Starting in the early 1930s, he made a steady rise into top 100, where he spent 47 years (1949-1995), peaking at #10 in 1971, his only year in the top 10.   He's now sitting at his lowest point ever on the chart.

Other members of the class of '61 (23):
2021

Patricia Highhouse Henrickson.  (2/19)

Bridget Michele Smith.  (2/13)

2020
Michael Long.  (10/22)

James Depto.  (8/7)
Sharon Long Sanden.  (7/16)
Richard Stahlman.  (6/17)
Ruth Ann Shick Lobdell.  (1/9)

2019
Susan Lyle Minor.  (9/7)
Judith Hornstrom Casey.  (7/15)

2018
Donna Rickerson.  (12/17)
Clifford Corey.  (7/13)
Patricia Finley Nuhfer.  (2/26)

2017
Theodore Donaldson.  (1/1/2018)
Larry Gardner.  (10/27)
Karen Jewell Ahlgren.  (4/9)
Robert Berlin.  (3/22)

2016
James Zaner.  (6/3)
David Thomson.  (4/20)

2015
William Anderson.  (3/10)
Barbara Gorton O'Bier.  (1/3)

2014
Charles Grinnen III.  (7/15)
Ronald Hultman.  (6/24)
Patricia Martin.  (2/17)