Bonnie Nettles
Bonnie Lu Nettles née Truesdale (1927 - January 20, 1985) later known as Ti was co-leader of a group with Marshall Applewhite which would later become the Heaven's Gate group after Nettles's death. Nettles died of liver cancer in 1985 in Dallas, Texas, 12 years before the cult's mass suicide in 1997.
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“Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day.
He saddled, he bridled, and gallant rode he,
And hame cam his guid horse, but never cam he.”
—Unknown. Bonnie George Campbell (l. 2–4)
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