Bonnie Jean McGee

July 21, 1931 – April 17, 2024 - Bonnie Jean McGee passed away peacefully with family by her side on April 17, 2024 at the age of 92. She was born to Helen and Norman Remington in Long Beach, California on July 21,1931. Bonnie attended Long Beach High School and after graduation attended Long Beach City College earning her Associates of Arts degree.

After school she became a secretary at Flintkote in San Bernardino, California. While visiting a friend she met a very handsome man driving a convertible MG, she and Arthur McGee fell in love and married in 1953. They moved to Berkley California and soon started a family. After living in the bay area for 10 years, the family moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Bonnie loved to garden, and grew beautiful dahlias. She was a member of the Axillary at Meridian Park Hospital for 40 years, fund raising for hospital projects, organizing blood drives, and helping to run the gift shop. She volunteered with the S.M.A.R.T program in the Tigard-Tualatin School District, and used her baking skills to teach students to bake cookies in the CE2 program at Tigard High School.

She loved to entertain and soon after moving to Lake Oswego along with other new comers to the community, formed a potluck group. This group of 7 couples met monthly starting in 1973. The last meeting that Art and Bonnie attended was at the Chart House restaurant in December of 2018.

Bonnie and Art loved to travel, a river cruse on the Rhine, a cruse to Alaska, and a trip to Hawaii were highlights. RVing and camping were activities Bonnie enjoyed throughout her life, from Big Bear and Palm Springs as a kid, to family trips to Yellowstone and the Trinity Alps, to touring the Southwest and camping at the beach.

Bonnie is survived by her daughter Susan McGee (Jennifer Nelson) of Lake Oswego, her son Mike McGee of Eugene; and many friends that she considered family.

The family would like to thank the staff at the Marquis at Tualatin for their care and support. Bonnie was a breast cancer surviver so, in lieu of flowers please make a donation in her name to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.