Cecil Levan Honnas

 


b. June 2, 1907
d. May 19, 1982

 Cecil Levan Honnas was born to Milton Samuel Peysert and Della Eve Piercy in a tent in a mining camp in the Swisshelm Mountains near Douglas, Arizona on June 2, 1907. His parents divorced and his mother married Peter Honnas who adopted Cecil. As a young boy he moved to Bisbee, then to Land Station near St. David where his family aquired land and cattle. During these years he became a very adept cowboy. In 1916 his mother and father moved to Sonoita, Az.

 Cecil married Lottie Leona Moore in 1930, and soon after they bought their first homestead.

 Cecil operated the Sonoita Garage, drilled water wells, drilled for a placer mining company in Sinaloa, Mexico, worked for the State Highway Dept, and more. During these years, he and Lottie would buy more homesteads as finances would allow.

 Cecil and Lottie lived and ranched in Sonoita, where they raised their sons, Raymond and Donald. Cecil & Lottie were active in their local church, and they donated land and the building to the Sonoita Bible Church.

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