Ellen Fay Bonnette

As believers we grieve not as those who have no hope, but as those who are assured of our eternal home. It is with sweet assurance, we as a family rejoice in the midst of our pain and celebrate the homegoing of our precious Ellen Faye Bonnette. Born on May 27, 1952, Ellen took her last breath of earthly air on October 7, 2021 in Dallas, Texas.

With absolute assurance and supreme confidence in Jesus who called her to Himself, she is now enraptured with the beauty and peace for which she longed and prepared. The reunion party with her parents, Mike and Donnie Gilchrist and her sister Duana Barnett was no doubt one for the ages! Ellen's unconditional love for her husband Vernon Bonnette, her boys, Chad and Michael Cagle and their families, James and David Bonnette and their families, (especially those richly blessed to call her "MiMi"), was born out of love straight from the heart of God. She loved her brother and sisters and was always up for enchilada night at El Fenix and game night with her sibs! Ellen loved her nieces and nephews as well and stood in the gap as a faithful prayer warrior as the children of her siblings benefitted from her powerful pleadings before the Father on their behalf. She loved her Tres Dias family! Only heaven will record the hours given in selfless sacrifice and service so that women and men could realize the fullness of the liberating joy and love of Jesus.
Ellen will live on in the lives of her sisters, Kat Harlan, Esther Pfrimmer, Cheryl Barron, her brother Mike Gilchrist Jr. along with her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and the unnumbered host privileged to call her friend.

There is no doubt the moment she opened her eyes in heaven the Savior for whom she lived uttered the words she had longed to hear... "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your rest!"