Bonnie Jeanne Shuman

Bonnie Jeanne (MacPhail) Shuman, 76, died on July 8, 2025. She is survived by her husband, Thom, and son, Teddy, as well as her sister Heather (Julie) MacPhail, brother Paul (Valerie) MacPhail, nieces Elly (Jon) Keyser, Kaela (Tim) Hammond, nephew Matthew (Kaylyn) MacPhail, and grandnephews James, Thomas, and Andrew Keyser. She was preceded in death by her father, John MacPhail, mother, Jeanne (Spangler) MacPhail, and sister, Deborah MacPhail.

Bonnie was a graduate of Gettysburg (Pa) Area High School and Florida Presbyterian College. She was a woman of abiding faith, taking on a variety of roles in church, serving as an ordained Deacon in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) She was especially gifted at asking most of the challenging questions during Sunday School. She lived out the gospel imperative of loving one’s neighbor by being a kind, caring, and compassionate friend to everyone she met.

She was beloved by her God, her siblings, her families by both birth and marriage, and by her church families. She loved books (especially historical fiction), music (especially Christmas carols), British mystery TV series as well as cooking and home improvement shows, golden retrievers and orange cats, her pots of herbs, walking and exercising, sitting out in the sunshine or by the pool reading and falling asleep, putting together jigsaw puzzles as well as word jumbles, attending and watching baseball games and having lunches with her girlfriends. And through their marriage, she helped her husband be a better minister, a better man, but especially a better husband and father.

She had a deep and abiding passion for special needs children and felt the best work she ever did was as a special needs aide. She did volunteer work at her local library, helping younger children improve their reading skills. Her amazing smile and genuine laughter touched the lives of everyone she met. She touched more lives than she ever imagined.

Bonnie’s life would best be honored by supporting and volunteering at one’s branch library (especially with younger kids), supporting and volunteering at one’s local public schools (especially with special needs students), supporting one’s local animal shelters (especially felines), or with any other organization committed to serving the most vulnerable in our world.

Contributions may be made to son Teddy’s disability trust fund with a check payable to ‘Community Fund fbo Edward Shuman’ and mailed to Community Fund Ohio, 17900 Jefferson Park, Suite 102, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130. Or to Galloway Presbyterian Church’s Furnace Fund, 6191 Hall Road, Galloway, OH 43119.

Services will be private, with a memorial to be held later in the year.

"Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's."