VERA T. BOND

Funeral service for Vera Thelma Bond of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.

Bond, 88, died Monday, Sept. 18, 1995, at the Lutheran Home.

She was born April 3, 1907, at Oran, daughter of Peter Ceefas and Suedie Stoffle Niswonger. She and George Lee Bond were married Dec. 29, 1923, at Jackson. He died Oct. 21, 1966.

Bond was a stitcher at a shoe factory 42 years, retiring in 1972. She was a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Lee of Cape Girardeau; three brothers, Floyd Niswonger of Cape Girardeau, Marvin Niswonger of Jackson, Gerald Niswonger of San Diego, Calif.; a grandchild, and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three sisters.