Bonnie Belle Watson Colvett, age 99, of Pulaski, TN, died on Friday, November 18, 2022, at NHC-Pulaski, 42 days prior to celebrating her 100th Birthday.
She was born on New Year’s Eve 1922 in Italy, Texas, to parents Pheba Ridgeway Watson and Joseph Werner Watson; the family relocated permanently to the Bunker Hill community in the mid 1920’s and ultimately grew to the size of 12 children. In 1940, she graduated from Bunker Hill High School as Valedictorian. During World War II, she clerked at the Nichols Military Hospital in Louisville, Ky.—a position she served with over-enthusiasm, having been caught several times giving excess servings of ice cream to the nation’s young fighting men. She then moved home to Pulaski and married wartime sweetheart Lewis Colvett. She served her husband and children vitally as a homemaker, including seeing the family through a years-long stint in Detroit, Mich., where Lewis found better work opportunity. She was crazy about Elvis, and she somehow didn’t learn to drive until age 53. Beginning in the 1970s, she was the first resident of the Garden Meadows neighborhood in Pulaski, where remarkably, she lived alone and independently until earlier this year. She was blessed with a sharpness of mind that endured until the very last.
She was preceded in death by husband Lewis and all 11 siblings. She is survived by sons Joe Colvett of Pulaski and John (Diane) Colvett of Pulaski; grandchildren, Sandra (Wes) Shugart of Brentwood, David Colvett of Pulaski, John David Colvett of Etheridge and Jaimie (Shane) Waugh of Lynnville; great-grandchildren Cole Shugart of Nashville, Curtis Colvett of New York, and Bryce Lewis Anderson of Lynnville; and many dearly loved nieces, nephews, and friends.
Graveside service will be 11am Saturday November 19, 2022 at Maplewood Cemetery with interment to follow.
