Melanie Bonner Thomas, who grew up in Leoti (graduating class of 1975), returned here to discuss her book, Old Man of the Fossil Beds, which is about her father, Marion Bonner.
A longtime Leoti resident, Bonner spent a 60-plus year career hunting fossils. Over the course of his long career, he placed hundreds of fossils in North American museums. Bonner Thomas held the book event at Wichita County …
