In the early morning hours of Friday, October 29, our darling angel Benita Aiko Bolon (Skeebie to her close family and friends) succumbed to a lifelong battle with heart failure. She was 11 days past her 63rd birthday.
Benita spent her early years in Meadow Bridge with her Grandparents, Gordon and Zella Judy, whom she adored her whole life. After spending some time in Indiana with her parents, she returned to West Virginia to attend Meadow Bridge High School, and then Trap Hill High School where she met her future husband and soul mate John Bolon. John and Benita dated through high school and beyond, and married in June 1978, a marriage that lasted 43 years. Benita was told she wouldn't live past childhood, then past her teen years, then they gave up. She was born with a congenital heart defect. She was told to never have children. She did that too and went on to have two granddaughters, that she adored.
Benita had a multitude of friends, and she treated everyone good. She had a big smile, and a great testimony of what the Lord had brought her through, including a heart transplant in
2009. In the end, her heart and her kidneys failed, and she just wanted to go home to be with the Lord. She will never be gone from our hearts.
Benita is preceded in death by her Grandparents Gordon and Zella Judy and Frank and Faye Aliff. Also an infant sister, Christie Aliff, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
She is survived by her husband John W Bolon, her daughter and son-in-law, Michelle and Steve Pierce, Granddaughters Emily Pierce and Lillie Pierce, her parents Norman and Norma Aliff of Meadow Bridge, formerly of Eccles, WV. Three brothers, Norman Ray Aliff (Peggy), Jerry Aliff, and David Aliff (Nancy). She is also survived by her mother-in-law, Oma Bolon who loved her as her own daughter.
She is also survived by her very best friend whom she considered and loved as a sister, Karen Rickard, and her family Dale, Jenny, and Jessica, also, her brother and sister-in-law's Ruth (Robert) Cline, Grace (Leonard) Parks, James Bolon, Rebekah (Bobby) Treadway who all considered her as a sibling. She was in their lives from 15 years old. Many nieces and nephews whom she loved, and her and John's "adopted" daughter Melva Ayers. Rest in Peace Benita, you will surely be missed.
Pallbearers will be her brother-in-law and nephews.
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