James Edward Bonham
1918-2013
USMC
WWII
James Edward Bonham was born in St. Louis, on January 9, 1918 to Walter and Lena Ringdahl Bonham.
Bonham graduated from the University of Iowa in 1939 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He served during World War II as an officer in the Marines and as a Naval Aviator in the South Pacific.
On August 21, 1948, he married Erma Lee Young, a veteran of the Army Cadet Nursing Corps during the war. They first settled in Mount Prospect before moving to the Barrington area in the 1960’s. The couple had two daughters.
After the war, James was an innovator in the plastics industry and the founder of Quality Molding Company and Duraco Products. He worked there for 50 years until his retirement in 1991. He died in September 2, 2013 and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.