Agnes P. Bonham Hayman

Agnes P. Bonham Hayman, age 104, formerly of Lake Pine Crest, Shickshinny died at 8:47 a. m. Thursday, September 1, 2011 at the Bonham Nursing Center, Stillwater, where she resided for the past eight years.

Born in Huntington Township, Luzerne County on September 11, 1906, she was a daughter of the late Oliver and Sarah (Cavanee) Cotterman. She spent her early life in Huntington Township and later resided in Plymouth for many years before moving to Lake Pine Crest in 1971.

Agnes was a 1924 graduate of the former Huntington High School and a 1929 graduate of the former Bloomsburg Normal School. She was an elementary teacher in the one room schools of Huntington Township and later taught in Shickshinny and last at Hunlock Creek, all part of the present Northwest Area School District. She retired in 1972 after 28 years of teaching.

She was the oldest member of the Town Hill United Methodist Church where she is a former member of the Over 50 Club and the hobby group. She also belonged to the Retired Teachers Association.

Agnes was preceded in death by two husbands:   William K. Bonham on August 9, 1980 and Arthur L. Hayman on October 1, 2004 and a step- daughter, Donna Fritz in 2008.

Surviving are a son, Kenneth L. Long, and his wife Patricia, Shickshinny; a granddaughter, Jennifer J., wife of Patrick Romano, Lake Pine Crest; and two- stepsons: Rev. Arthur Lee Hayman, and his wife Joan, Benton and Rev. Franklin F. Hayman, and his wife Karen, Allegheny, New York.

The family will provide flowers. Memorials may be sent to the Town Hill United Methodist Church, 417 Town Hill Road, Shickshinny, PA  18655.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 11 a. m. in the Dean W. Kriner, Inc., Funeral Home & Cremation service, Benton, with her step-son, Rev. Arthur Lee Hayman officiating. Interment in Scott Cemetery, Waterton. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 10-11 a. m.