THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Sunday, December 3, 1995 TAG: 9512030020
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Maurice Bonds, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, died on Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995. He was 77 years of age.
He was an artist and a professor of arts at the university where he had chaired the department of fine arts and later the department of art history. Before retirement, he had taught there for 32 years. Mr. Bonds was educated in the Mathews County Public Schools, the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary, the Art Students' League of New York and Columbia University. He was a veteran of World War II and served with the U. S. Army in Europe.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Josephine Stokes Bonds; four children, Rebecca Boothe Oxenreider of Manakin-Sabot, Va., Josephine Bonds Nicholls of Glen Allen, Va., Irene Bonds Slatner of Greensboro, N.C., and Dr. William Sadler Bonds of Sewanee, Tenn.; sister, Sara Jones Dill of San Diego, Calif.; brother, Edward H. Jones of Brunswick, Maine; six grandchildren; and eight step grandchildren.
A funeral service will not be held. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends at home on Friday, December 22, 1995, from 3 to 6 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial gifts be made to the Art Fellowship Fund at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, or to the Mathews Memorial Library, Mathews, Va., 23109, or to the Maurice Bonds Scholarship in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Bennett Funeral Home, Richmond, is in charge of the arrangements.
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