LOS ANGELES (AP) – Anita Pointer says if it weren’t for her sister Bonnie, we never would have had the chance to hear the Grammy-winning group. Anita says her younger sister broached the idea of her family giving up singing at church – and trying to make it in as a pop group. First, Bonnie and her younger sister June formed a duo. Then Bonnie got her two older sisters Ruth and Anita to join the group – even though they were married and had kids – and the Pointer Sisters were born. Bonnie Pointer has died. Her publicist says it was cardiac arrest. She was 69.