Bonnie Lee

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Story Published: Jan 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM MDT

Story Updated: Nov 7, 2008 at 1:17 PM MDT

By Tommy Noel

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When Eyewitness News Reporter Tommy Noel finds people for his Everybody Has a Story segment, most people he meets are born and raised right here in Eastern Idaho.

Today, though, is an exception. Tommy found someone who has a nice southern twang!

When I randomly found Bonnie Lee thanks to the phone book, I knew the second I spoke to her, she was going to be a fun person.. All thanks to her voice.

"My next door neighbor says, 'do you know how you talk? I have lost a lot of my accent, if you can believe it. I really have," says Bonnie Lee.

Bonnie hails from Atlanta, Georgia.

Home of the Atlanta Braves, the Georgia Peach, and the Coca-Cola Museum.

"I committed blasphemy. I got hooked on Pepsi. That is a sacrilege in Atlanta. You do not get hooked on Pepsi, but I did," says Bonnie.

Bonnie met her husband in Atlanta and moved to East Idaho 11 years ago.

"We'd gone to the Tetons and Yellowstone and Jackson, and of course that's one of the prettiest places on the face of the earth," says Bonnie.

In her spare time, Bonnie loves to paint, but can't keep her work for very long.

"My family will come and take everything I paint," says Bonnie.

One of her favorite paintings is when her mother came to Idaho from Georgia and had never seen this much snow.

She's proud of her paintings, and also her elephants but says she doesn't collect them for political reasons.

And she still holds on to some of those southern traditions.

"I happen to know for a fact, if you do not eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, you won't make a dime," says Bonnie.

"So you carry on that tradition," asks Tommy Noel.

"Oh yes," replies Bonnie.

Eatin' Black-eyed Peas in Idaho Falls.. Now that proves that Everybody Has a Story.

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