Bonnie Nettles | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | Bonnie Lu Trousdale August 29, 1927 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Died | June 19, 1985 Dallas, Texas, U.S. | (aged 57)
Other names | Ti, Peep, Pig, Shelly West |
Occupation | Registered nurse |
Known for | Co-leader of Heaven's Gate |
Spouse |
Joseph Segal Nettles
(m. 1949; div. 1973) |
Children | 4 |
Bonnie Lu Nettles (née Trousdale; August 29, 1927 – June 19, 1985), later known as Ti, was co-founder and co-leader with Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate new religious movement. Nettles died of melanoma metastatic to the liver in 1985 in Dallas, Texas, twelve years before the group's mass suicide in March 1997.[1]