August 29, 1927 - Bonnie Nettles
Her early death meant she never witnessed the culmination of what she helped set in motion — the 1997 mass suicide of 39 Heaven's Gate members who believed they were ascending to a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. As co-founder and ideological architect of the movement alongside Marshall Applewhite, Nettles shaped the doctrine that fused Christian millennialism with UFO belief into a framework her followers would ultimately die for. The degree to which her influence persisted in the group's theology after her 1985 death speaks to the hold she and Applewhite established over their followers.
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Bonnie Lu Nettles (née Trousdale; August 29, 1927 – June 19, 1985), later known as Ti (; TEE), was an American religious leader and nurse who was co-founder and co-leader along with Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate new religious movement. Nettles died of melanoma metastatic to the liver in 1985 in Dallas, Texas, twelve years before the group's mass suicide in March 1997.
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