Vernon Leon Mcguire
May 8, 2013
Vernon Leon McGuire was born September 29, 1937 in Porum, Oklahoma one of four sons born to Freida (Boehm) and Fred McGuire. The family moved to Wasco and Vernon attended Thomas Jefferson School and graduated from Wasco Union High School with the Class of 1956 where he participated in track and football. He went on to earn his Associates...
Luis Angel Martinez
May 7, 2013
Luis Angel Martinez was born on January 5, 1953 to Jose and Petra Martinez in Elsa, Texas. He was the 3rd child born in the family. The family moved to California and Luis attended Hart High School in Valencia where he had many great memories. He eventually moved to Kern County and met the most beautiful woman in the...
Alvin Henry Nikkel
May 7, 2013
Alvin Henry Nikkel (April 12, 1927 – May 7, 2013). Alvin was born to Henry H and Agatha Nikkel in Shafter, California, and passed peacefully into the arms of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Tuesday evening. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Minnie; son Ron and wife Angela of Bear Valley Springs; son Gerald...
Baby Angel Garza
May 7, 2013
Baby Angel Garza passed away on May 7, 2013. He was survived by his parents Jaime Garza and Cheyenne Lucero; grandparents David and Sherri Lucero and Esperanza Quintero; brother Jaime Garza and sister Amya Garza. A Graveside service will be held at Shafter Memorial Park on Friday May 10, 2013 at 1pm.
Barbara Del Simpkins
May 7, 2013
Barbara Del (Schutte) Simpkins was born January 18, 1940 and went home to be with her Lord and Savior May 7, 2013. She was 73 years young. Barbara was born in Minnesota to Ralph and Ermadel Schutte and was the second of four children, 3 girls and 1 boy. She moved to Sylmar, California with her family in 1947...
Fern Ella Benson
May 7, 2013
Fern Ella Benson was born in Oklahoma, on December 3, 1931 to Roy & Ester (Kelly) Williams. Fern worked as a homemaker for 62 years. In accordance to her family's wishes there was no service for Fern Benson, who passed away on May 7, 2013 in Bakersfield, California at age 81 years.
Stephen Clark Beatty
May 3, 2013
Stephen Clark Beatty was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 19, 1942 one of three children born to Elizabeth Bradley and Earl Beatty. When Steve was 9 years old the family moved to Los Altos, California and later to Santa Barbara where he graduated high school. Steve was a welder and worked for Weyerhaeuser and later retired from A.C....
Joe Lee Holbert
May 2, 2013
Joe Lee Holbert passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2013 in Bakersfield, CA at the age of 74. He was born on January 3, 1939 to William Lee "Rab" & Mildred Joe (Bailey) Holbert in Abernathy, Texas, their only child. Joe graduated from Arvin High School in 1956. On January 12, 1957, he married his high school sweetheart, Faye...
Ronald Eugene Wiseman
May 2, 2013
Ronald Eugene Wiseman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on September 15, 1930 to Wilburn and Pauline (Brewer) Wiseman. Ronald worked as a Minister for 60 years and held a Masters Degree. Ronald Wiseman was 82 years old when he passed away on May 2, 2013 in Bakersfield, California. He was a resident of Shafter, California. In accordance with...
Dortha Marie Rogers Mann
Apr 30, 2013
DORTHA MARIE RODGERS MANN, 82, of Las Vegas, passed away April 30, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born October 25, 1930, in Bakersfield, California, and resided in Las Vegas, California and Alaska over her lifetime, where she worked as a legal secretary. Dortha was a loving wife, mother, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, as well as friend to all....
Temple Joe Bivins
Apr 30, 2013
Joe was born in Marlow, Oklahoma and moved to Arvin, California when he was 1 year old. He worked as truck driver transporting agricultural products. He worked for various trucking companies and was also a self-employed owner/operator. Joe was a hard worker and worked until the age of 81 years old. Joe is survived by his wife of 63...
Bill Roman Crosby
Apr 29, 2013
Bill was born in 1928 in Paw Paw, Oklahoma to Ira Francis and Sarah Daisy Crosby. He was the second of four children. At the age of 8 in 1936 the family fled the Dust Bowl and moved to Wasco, California. Times were tough due to the depression but the family persevered. Bill attended Wasco Schools and graduated from...
James 'Jim' Richard Swann
Apr 27, 2013
James Richard Swann born on June 22nd 1938 in Maywood, CA. The second of two children to Laura and Paul Swann. Jim and his sister Pat got to see alot of the world because his father was a pipe line welder and traveled to follow his work. Death was April 27th 2013 in Wasco, CA surrounded by family and...
Susan Renae Myers
Apr 21, 2013
Susan was born in Vallejo, California to Linda Hamilton and William D. Perry, M.D. on June 25, 1970. She went home to be with the Lord April 21, 2013 after a valiant and long battle with cancer at USC Norris Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Susan was preceded in death by her father, William Perry M.D., her grandmother Opal...
Eva A Sutton
Apr 19, 2013
Eva A Sutton, 91 year old Checotah resident, died Friday, April 19, 2013 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. She was born on Tuesday, September 27, 1921 in Checotah, Texas to John and Beulah (Chonico) Hall. She grew up in Roland, Oklahoma where she attended school until the fourth grade. Eva became a farm laborer and the married Thurman Sutton on Saturday,...
Leland Wallace Bergman
Apr 17, 2013
Leland Wallace Bergman was born on May 27th, 1916 to Henry and Mary Bergman in Marion, Kansas. He was raised on a farm in Hillsborough. With the farming and financial trouble the dustbowl brought, their family moved to Texas. Shortly after, around the age of 18, he traveled to California with twenty-one dollars in his pocket, along with his...
Karla Urrea
Apr 17, 2013
Karla Urrea was born in Bakersfield, California on April 17, 2013 to Jesus Ramon Urrea & Karla Maria Lopez. In accordance with her family's wishes there was no service for Karla Urrea, who passed away on April 17, 2013 in Bakersfield, California.
Michael Joseph Silva
Apr 8, 2013
Michael Silva was born in East Los Angeles, California on October 10, 1982 to Carlos and Margarita (Sanchez) Silva and grew up in San Gabriel Valley attending Park West Continuation School in Pomona. That is where he met his future wife, Annie Sanchez. They moved to Shafter in August of 2000 and were formally married on June 17, 2002...
James Carol Strange
Apr 8, 2013
James Carol Strange was born in Lawton, Oklahoma on June 9, 1948 to Sammie Carol & Ruth Lenora (Hammers) Strange. James was business owner of a computer technical support company for 20 years. He served his country proudly in the Navy and also enjoyed spending time on the golf course. James Strange was 64 old when he passed away...
Mitchell Scott Deatherage
Apr 5, 2013
Mitchell Scott Deatherage January 7, 1992- April 5, 2013 Our wonderful son, Mitchell Scott Deatherage, born on January 7, 1992, in Bakersfield, California, was called back to our LORD, on April 5, 2013. Mitch was an awesome young man. Everyone who met him, even for a moment, loved him, and considered him a friend. He had a great sense...
