Bonnie Mae Galluzzi, Hermitess, 73

Bonnie M. Galluzzi died on Oct. 2, 2015, of sepsis and bowel necrosis.

She was born to Genevieve and Enrico Galluzzi on Sept. 15, 1942, in Stockton, Calif.

She was a member of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and had an apostolate prior to becoming a hermitess in 1992. She was active in St. Joseph’s Healing Ministry, served as Eucharistic Minister, was Coordinator for visitations to the home-bound., was on the Parish Council; was Vice President of the Legion of Mary, Our Lady of Hope Praesidium; and also did visitations to the sick and homebound. She was a Lector, a spiritual member of the Catholic Daughters; and was active in Morality in the Media, Birthright, St. Thomas Auxiliary, Hawthorne Altar Society, Hawthorne ‘Horse-man’s Assn., Sierra Club, Clements Buckaroos and St. Vincent de Paul.

She was active in Pro-Life Movement work, writing literally hundreds of letters to legislators, government officials and Presidents. She also did much Anti-Pornography work.

Bonnie was an avid fisherwoman, hunter and sharpshooter. Frequent trips out of state with her horse and trailer were pretty usual.

She has traveled all of the U.S. and Canada, toured most of Europe and quite a few out of the way places like Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania. She has gone hot-air ballooning over the Masai Mara in Africa and has snorkeled in the warm waters of Cancun, and Belize in the Yucatan. She very much enjoyed visiting Marian Shrines, especially in Italy, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Spain, France and Bosnia. Her most favorite place was in Israel.

She spent her last years as a hermitess, living a life of prayer and solitude. She leaves one sister, two sons, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at St. Thomas Catholic Church, 919 Indiana St., Coeur d’Alene. Burial will be at St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery following the Mass.