{"id":873830,"date":"2026-08-27T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:42:13","slug":"artist-business-owner-bonnie-leyton-dead-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873830\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist, Business Owner Bonnie Leyton Dead at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bonnie-leyton-carnells.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Artist, Business Owner Bonnie Leyton Dead at 86\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via Carnell&#8217;s Funeral Home)<\/p>\n<p>A local business owner has passed away. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnells.com\/obituaries\/bonnie-leyton-nee-averbach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie Leyton<\/a>, a potter and painter who owned the Leyton Gallery of Fine Art, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased in 2022 by her husband Elliott Leyton, an author and social-anthropologist who wrote the book \u2018Hunting Humans.\u2019     <\/p>\n<p>Leyton is being remembered for her support of the local arts community, her fashion sense and her \u201cjoie de vivre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via Carnell&#8217;s Funeral Home) A local business owner has passed away. Bonnie Leyton, a potter and painter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-873830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}