Bonnie Gail Rollings, age 67 passed away Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 at Munson Medical Center. Bonnie was born May 3 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland to Charles and Anita (Kurtz) Rollings. She graduated from the University of Florida where she studied psychology, religion, and dance. Following graduation, she went to Poznan, Poland as a foreign exchange student at Adam Mickiewicz University where she studied dance at Teatr Polski. During her stay in Poland in the days of the Iron Curtain surrounding the USSR, she became terrified that she was being followed by the KGB. She went to the US Consulate, where they determined she needed to be sent back to the US. On her way back, she was detained in Frankfurt, Germany, at the psychiatric hospital. Her mother flew to Germany to escort her home, and from that time Bonnie lived at home for many years. She worked as an administrative assistant and medical transcriptionist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, and attended the Episcopal Church. Her health issues led her to give up dancing and focus on poetry, publishing her book "life poems / love poems" in 2016. After spending years in Huntsville, Alabama and Chicago, she moved to Traverse City to be near her sister and brother-in-law who moved here recently from Huntsville. She is survived by her sister, Judith Ann Rollings, of Traverse City.
Graveside services will be held on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Grand Traverse Memorial Gardens. Arrangements entrusted to the Covell Funeral Home.
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