[citation needed] Bond first taught in the towns of Springdale and Cane Hill, which are also in Washington County.

He moved to Bauxite, where he was superintendent of the public schools in Saline County in central Arkansas.

[2] Two weeks before leaving Louisiana Tech, Bond broke ground for the new $421,000 administration building known first as Leche Hall, after Governor Richard Leche, and then renamed for John Ephraim Keeny, the sixth president of Louisiana Tech.

[7] In later life, Bond and his wife Mary Elizabeth lived in Searcy and Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they engaged in gardening, travel, and entertaining.

Mary Elizabeth was widowed and survived her husband by 23 years, continuing to live in Fayetteville.