Jolly Bonita

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Jolly Bonita was both a Midget performer, and a Fat Lady. She performed many seasons at The Dreamland Circus Sideshow in Coney Island. She was also occasionally billed as the Irish Fat Midget.

Her obituary appeared in Variety, in June 1934:

BONITA. GIBBONS
'Jolly' Bonita Gibbons,. 63, fat woman
of, Midget City at the Fair, died in
Chicago June 2, of, heartdisease.
Though only 46 inches tall
she weighed 229 pounds. Had spent
years with circuses and museums.
Interment Bourbon, Ind.