Shellie Bonotto

Service for Shellie Ann Sparks Bonotto, 78, of Cleburne, will be conducted at 2:00 P.M., Monday, March 14, 2022, in the Crosier-Pearson Cleburne Chapel. Reverend Otis Mann will officiate. Burial to follow in Rosehill Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-5:00 P.M., Sunday, March 13, 2022, at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Tommy Jewel, Mikey Bonotto, T.J. Turner, Dale Hainey, Kent Kirkpatrick, and Paul Berber.

Shellie passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2022, in Cleburne. She was born December 25, 1943, in Fort Worth, Texas to J.D and Emma Lee Horton Sparks. She married Thomas James Bonotto on October 20, 1970, in Eaton Park, Florida. Shellie was a homemaker while raising her children. Her family was known best for T.J.’s Barbeque, where she worked side by side with her husband. Shellie worked in the Food Service industry for Alvarado and Cleburne I.S.D.’s and had nursing home ministries for over 20 years.

Shellie is survived by her children, Jimmy Noble and partner, Lewis Woodell of Oakland Park, Florida, Karen Noble of Cleburne, Richard Bonotto and wife, Christine of Cleburne, Denise Banner of Bristow, Virginia, and Deborah Bonotto of Cleburne; brother, Ronnie Sparks and wife, Pat of Forney, Texas; 16 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents and husband, Thomas “T.J.” Bonotto; siblings, Jerry Sparks, Charles Sparks, and Barbara Story; children, Randall Wayne Noble, and Darla Gail Noble.