Bernita Diane Mongold Tryon-Ponte

1951 - 1998  (47 years)

• Name	Bernita Diane Mongold Tryon-Ponte
  Born	4 Feb 1951	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Gender	Female
  Died	9 Sep 1998	Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I6719	Rossville
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	George F Mongold
  Mother	Helen Larrine Uhl Mongold,   d. 17 Apr 2001, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Married	30 Aug 1947	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Family ID	F6289	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ralph J Ponte
  Married	14 Feb 1992	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Children	1. August M Ponte
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2018 16:42:03
  Family ID	F6290	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Jeffery S Tryon
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2018 16:42:20
  Family ID	F6291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 9 Sep 1998 - Shawnee County, Kansas Buried - - Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Tryon-Ponte, Bernita Bernita Diane Tryon-Ponte Bernita Diane Tryon-Ponte, 47, Auburn, was killed in an automobile accident in southwest Shawnee County, Wednesday, September 9,1998. Mrs. Tryon-Ponte had worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Montgomery Wards, Meeks Office Equipment, and the Blind Tiger, all in Topeka, and Champions Office Product/United Stationers in Kansas City. She was born February 4,1951, in Topeka, the daughter of George F. and Helen L. Uhl Mongold. She graduated from Perry High School in 1969 where she was a baton leader. She had lived in Perry, Kansas City, and Topeka before she moved to Auburn in 1992. Mrs. Tryon-Ponte was a member of the Grantville 4-H Club and a former member of Czech ZCJB Western Fraternal Lodge in Rossville. She also was a tap dancer and had been active at the Auburn Grade school as a room mother and leader for Brownie Troop No. 39 and Girl Scout Troop No. 39. She was married to Ralph J. Ponte on February 14, 1992, in Topeka. He survives. Other survivors include a daughter, August M. Ponte, at home; a son, Jeffery S. Tryon, Kansas City, MO; two stepdaughters, Amy L. Ponte, Topeka, and Tere¬sa R. Doty, St. Marys; her parents, George F. and Helen L. Mongold, Perry; and a brother, Terry W. Mongold, Grantville. Her service was Saturday at the Parker-Price Mortuary. Burial was in Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka. Memorial contributions may be made to the August M. Ponte Educational Fund, Attention Bill Tregemba, Mercantile Bank, P.O. Box 178, Topeka, 66601.