{"id":421579,"date":"2026-08-02T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:45:08","slug":"bonnie-lee-hugyez-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421579\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Lee Hugyez \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tBonnie Lee Hugyez \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Lee Hugyez (nee Wigent) was born on February 6, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, and passed on June 18, 2026 at her home in San Diego, CA. Daughter of Ardella Beanblossom and Harold Wigent (paternal grandparents, Grace, Ivan and Vada). Stepfather Lew Davidson. Stepbrother Bill Davidson. At the age of 2, she moved to St. Louis, MO, with much loved grandmother, Laura Frances Beanblossom (nee Lambrecht) and uncle, Victor Lee Beanblossom.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie attended Horace Mann and Lyon Elementary schools, Bayless High School, St. Louis Community College and San Diego Community College. Worked in civil service, St. Louis Board of Education, a trucking company and at several law firms in St. Louis before moving to San Diego, CA in 1987. In San Diego, she worked at several law firms with very special memories of Kirby Noonan Lance &amp; Hoge.<\/p>\n<p>Mother of Troy Arthur Hugyez (Josie) and Laura Lynn Lange (deceased), grandson Johnathan (deceased), step-grandchildren, Jessie and Kenny. Great-granddaughters, Daphne and Maisie. Sister, aunt and friend.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie loved God, all of God\u2019s creations, especially small children, small animals, roses, music of all genre, the Cove at La Jolla and the view from Mount Soledad. She thoroughly enjoyed traveling, baking, reading, cross stitching, quilting, jewelry making, watching movies from the \u201940s and \u201950s, British television, aqua aerobics, dancing and repaying American Indians for past injustices. She also volunteered at Kaiser Hospital. Bonnie could never say no to chocolate. Please enjoy a chocolate martini in her memory.<\/p>\n<p>She had a very special love for her furry children over several generations. Doo-Doo, Von Ryan, Brandy, Alexander, Catherine, Elvis, Chester, Frank, Mr. Butters, her numerous parakeets and the very special Chihuahua\/MinPins, Bill and Miss Bliss.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the San Diego Humane Society, Doctors Without Borders or Samaritan\u2019s Purse. Bonnie would ask that you praise your children on a daily basis and talk to them more often than you use your iPhone, and love your neighbor without regard to race, nationality or religion, as God has loved and provided for you. Never be too busy to give praise, counsel or just lend an ear.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of Bonnie\u2019s life will take place in San Diego on August 28, 11am at St. Therese Church, 6400 St. Therese Way, San Diego, CA 92120, with a reception at 1pm at the clubhouse where Bonnie lived for over 20 years, 4950 Old Cliffs Road, San Diego, CA 92120. <\/p>\n<p> ~ Please don\u2019t mourn my departure, celebrate my life by living your life to the fullest. As the bird free of its cage seeks the heights, so the Christian soul in death flies home to God! ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonnie Lee Hugyez OBITUARY Bonnie Lee Hugyez (nee Wigent) was born on February 6, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-421579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}