Florence Bonime

When she was 16 she began working in advertising, eventually becoming a copywriter.

[2] After divorcing a previous husband, Louis Cummings,[3][4] she married the psychoanalyst Walter Bonime in 1953.

[citation needed] She later co-authored papers on psychoanalysis with both him and Marianne Eckardt.

[2] Some of her papers are held at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

[5] She was survived by her husband, Dr Walter Bonime, her son Frank Cummings, her daughter Norma Ruth Lovins, her step-daughter Karen Bonime her step-son Stephen Bonime, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.