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Jr. Bonner Dies (1968-2012)...
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqHzGTl_SrcABVBQt93aXN92xjUGzsw0y_7HP3fd5BGoRhQHnkTopI2nkx36FIk2Hf7ew4hH_6vCjdYPo5coecM2gxGxbwqhYxzl2xg4WYnTgZhuGdRDFD1KZsjpD557cda7b_u9HkHHU/s1600/aaaaaaaaaBonnerdies.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 273px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721002433700763490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqHzGTl_SrcABVBQt93aXN92xjUGzsw0y_7HP3fd5BGoRhQHnkTopI2nkx36FIk2Hf7ew4hH_6vCjdYPo5coecM2gxGxbwqhYxzl2xg4WYnTgZhuGdRDFD1KZsjpD557cda7b_u9HkHHU/s400/aaaaaaaaaBonnerdies.jpg" /></a> <em><span style="font-size:85%;">"Write it down what you've found out, songwriter</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Don't let it all slip away</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Speak your mind all the time, songwriter</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Someone is listening today..."</span></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- Willie Nelson, </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Songwriter</em></span></strong><br /><br /><strong>By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ</strong><br /><em>The Paz Files</em><br /><br /><strong>HARLINGEN, Texas -</strong> Doctors at the local hospital here pronounced<em> Paz Files</em> writer Junior Bonner dead at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, hours after he suffered a massive heart attack at his doublewide trailer home in nearby Combes. Bonner was 44.<br /><br />"He fought like a sumbitch, but his heart just gave out," said cardiologist Dr. Henry Lafontaine Aguilar. "Most men die instantly when they suffer as much damage as Junior suffered. You could say he worked that heart for all it was worth. We were trying to save a heart that, to us, was the heart of a 78-year-old man. Mr. Bonner got all he could get out of his."<br /><br />According to Harlingen bar waitress Inez Jeantete, who was with him in Combes when Bonner first grabbed at his chest, the two were "in the middle of some aggressive, but beautiful lovemaking," something the doctors say may have contributed to his demise. Bonner, Ms. Jeantete told story-hungry reporters gathered outside the Emergency Room, had been cutting down a pair of craggy mesquite trees in the property's backyard when she arrived at his home on her day off. "He said he was glad to see me, dropped the axe and directed me to the bedroom inside the trailer home," she noted between sobbings. "We were doing fine and then he gasped in pain and I freaked out. I mean, I was nude and I'd never had a man die on me in bed."<br /><br />Bonner is survived by a brother, Elmer, who resides in Pueblo, Colorado and is a known figure in the national rodeo circuit. According to hospital officials, Junior Bonner's body was on its way to the morgue for preparations ahead of a trip west.<br /><br /><em>Paz Files</em> readers first got a taste of his writing when they found it on <strong><em>The Brownsville Herald-Tribune</em></strong> website, where he regaled them with stories about drinking, womanizing and general partying. Bonner, however, was fired for drinking alcohol while covering a Harlingen City Commission meeting last year. He then moved to Amsterdam and became the object of a cult following when word moved across the Atlantic that he had been viciously murdered in the city's Red Light district. He later returned to the Valley, where he took up with an El Salvadoran spitfire by the name of Cylantra De La Torre. His latest escapade involved another waitress, Ruby Archuleta, a married woman whose husband threatened to knife Bonner.<br /><br />"Junior Bonner was a singular talent," said Brownsville Blogger Jerry McHale. "He was the kind of person officials wish to jail at first sight. He lived his life as if every woman he met was sent down for him. And you didn't have to be a raving beauty for Junior. No, sir, he found some beauty in every woman. His kind come around only once in a lifetime."<br /><br /><strong><em>STIJA</em></strong>, the South Texas Independent Journalists Association, will soon begin bestowing <strong>The Junior Bonner Award</strong>, McHale added. "It will go to the border blogger who chases the green light, who isn't afraid of anyGoddamnbody, who best personifies our style of unapologetic journalism," he said. "That was always Junior Bonner rat there, as he would've said."<br /><br />Editors at <em>The Paz Files</em> said the website would "go black" on Monday in tribute to the passing of a loyal staffer...<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- 30 -</span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8418586410607151775-209789591511457401?l=thepazfiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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