LaVonne “Bonnie” Leone Hoenk died peacefully at home surrounded by family, on June 10, 2022, at the age of 92. Bonnie was one of six children born to Richard M. Parker and Elna E. Reiter in Wabasha County on January 14, 1930. She graduated from Elgin High School in 1947. On May 19, 1950, she married Robert D. Hoenk at Trinity Lutheran Church in Elgin, Minnesota. They rented, and later bought a farm one mile south of Elgin, where they raised six children together. Bonnie worked alongside Bob on the farm, while working various other jobs outside the home, eventually working full-time at Eastwood and Peoples State Bank in Elgin as first a loan officer, and later a bank teller. The couple retired to Pine Island, Minnesota in 2001, where they enjoyed living and traveling, until moving to SE Rochester in 2015.