2.12.3.3.3. Bonnie Ann Muir (1935- )

Bonnie Ann Muir was born on 15 September 1935 in Raven, Virginia, to Robert Muir, Jr. and Sadie Viola Cline. She was one of a pair of twin girls; her twin sister, Betty Lou Muir died two days after they were born. Bonnie grew up in Maiden Spring, Virginia. Her parents separated when she was nine years old and divorced in 1949.

Left to right: Robert Muir, Jr., Bonnie Ann Muir, Billy Eugene Muir, and Sadie
Viola (Cline) Muir, c1937; photograph courtesy of Faye (Muir) West

Bonnie married Winfred Jerome Hess on 3 October 1952 in Lebanon, Virginia. They had three children together before the couple separated on 4 September 1973. Three months later, Winfred was granted a divorce decree.

After the divorce became final, Bonnie married Flem Evert Ball on 29 December 1973 in Russell County, Virginia. Flem was a widower.

Flem and Bonnie were living in Morehead City, North Carolina, when Bonnie's older brother, Billy, died. By 1993 they had moved across the Bogue Sound to Emerald Isle, a community on the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.

Flem Evert Ball died on 13 April 2002 in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.

When Bonnie's brother, Bobbie Joe Muir, died in 2014, Bonnie lived in Florida.

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'Robert Muir, Jr., Family, c1937,' personal collection of Faye (Muir) West
1940 US Federal Census, Census Place: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia; Roll: T627_4298; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 93-21
Alice (Muir) Jennings Genealogy Notebook, page 12
Hurst Scott Funeral Home, http://www.hurstscottfuneralhomes.com/
The State, 13 December 1989
US, Public Records, Volume 1, 1935-1993, 1993 Emerald Isle, North Carolina (Ball, Bonnie A.)
US, Virginia Birth Records, 1864-2014, 1935 Bonnie Ann Muir
US, Virginia Divorce Records, 1918-2014, 1973 Hess, Winfred Jerome - Muir, Bonnie Ann
US, Virginia Marriage Records, 1918-2014, 1952 Hess, Winfred Jerome - Muir, Bonnie Ann
US, Virginia Marriage Records, 1918-2014, 1973 Ball, Flem - Muir Hess, Bonnie Ann