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Charlotte Elizabeth BONICA, Ph.D. May 31, 1946 - June 6, 2006

Dr. Charlotte Elizabeth Bonica was born on May 31, 1946 at Fort Lewis, Washington. Her family moved to Tacoma in 1947. She attended St. Patrick Elementary School and graduated from Aqinas Academy High School. She received her BA in English at the University of Washington and attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania where she received her Masters of Arts and Doctorate in English. Her studies abroad included programs at the American Academy in Rome and the Universita degli Stanieri in Siena. She was an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University in New York and also held the position of Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Division of Arts and Science. Her other teaching positions included College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, Bellevue Community College and Forest Ridge School, Bellevue.

She was the recipient of several fellowships, including a Fulbright to study Classical Arts in Rome, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship and the Lawrence E. Chamberlain Fellowship at Columbia University. She has been published in the Journal of English Literary History and several of her papers have been presented at the Modern Language Convention.

She is survived by her sisters, Linda Bonica and Angela Bonica DeSimone, her brother, John A. Bonica, her nieces, Anna Bonica and Adriana Cuthbert, her nephews, William Bonica and Marco DeSimone and great nephew, Vincent James Cuthbert. The family requests that memorials be sent to the Dominican Sisters Retirement Fund, Tacoma Dominican Center, 935 Fawcett Ave. S., Tacoma, WA 98402. A Rosary is to be held Tuesday, June 13th, 7:00 p.m. Funeral Service will be held Wednesday, June 14th at 11:00 a.m. both at Butterworth-Arthur A. Wright Chapel, 520 W. Raye St., Seattle, 206 282-5500. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery.