Sara K. (Sally) Bono, 93, formerly of Lancaster, KS died Thursday, Jan 7, 2016 at her home in Lenexa, Kansas.

Sally has been cremated, the family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:30 pm on Thursday,  Jan 14, 2016 at Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home, Atchison KS. Private inurnment will be at Lancaster Cemetery at a later date. Memorials are suggested to United Methodist Church, Lancaster, KS or Project Concern, Atchison and sent in care of Becker-Dyer Stanton Funeral Home who is handling the arrangements. Condolences to the family may be left online at www.beckerdyer.com.

The daughter of B.E. and Kate (Lowell) Sewell, Sally was born February 7, 1922 in Horton, KS. A graduate of ACCHS in Effingham and Atchison Business College, she worked as a legal and bank secretary in Topeka and Atchison, and as an insurance agent retiring in 1987 from The Clements Agency in Atchison.  She married B.J. Bono on November 25, 1942 in Topeka, and the family of five moved to their farm home near Lancaster in 1949. Devoted to her family, home, and friends, she was a member of the Lancaster Methodist Church, the 20th Century Club, Lancaster, served as board member of Project Concern and as a volunteer with Hospice of Lancaster and Atchison.  She was a teacher and lover of music, enjoyed reading, playing bridge, work games and puzzles. After retirement, she contributed puzzles for twenty years to a national Acrostics Network. In 1999, she and her husband moved to Lenexa, Kansas.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by her son Richard G. Bono and daughter Joanne DeShazo, both of Lenexa, KS; two grandchildren, Emily Bono and Graham DeShazo; and two great grandchildren. Her parents and a son James D. Bono (1982), brother B.E. Sewell, Jr preceded her in death.