Elmer 'Ivan' Reich
Dec 8, 2009
Elmer "Ivan" Reich was born in Tallahanee, Oklahoma on January 25, 1924 to Atlas Immagene (Rose) and Ammon Hanford Reich. He was one of thirteen siblings. He married his beautiful wife, Alice (Reed) on September 4, 1943. He then moved to the Tulare area where he pulled cotton bowls and many other jobs to put food on his families...
Mildred Elizabeth Allen
Dec 8, 2009
Mildred Allen, 78, of Bakersfield, CA went to be with the Lord on December 8, 2009. Mrs. Allen was born in February, 1931 to Floyd and Vesta Smith in Short, OK, the third of seven children. The family moved between Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri during the next several years. Mildred quit school in the middle of seventh grade to...
Lucy Alderete
Dec 4, 2009
Lucy Alderete June 17, 1917 – Dec 4, 2009 A celebration of the life of our Mother Lucy Alderete will begin with a Rosary Tuesday 12/8/09, 7pm at Hopson-Anspach Mortuary. The celebration will continue Wednesday 10:30 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 609 E. California Ave. Mom went home peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,...
Lela Kathryn Kliewer
Dec 4, 2009
Lela Kathryn Kliewer passed away on December 4th at the age of 82. Lela Kathryn Jackson was born in Elmore City, Oklahoma in 1926 to Dessie Regina Masterson and Baker Neal Jackson. She lived in Shafter since 1946. She met her future husband, Jake Kliewer, while working in Los Angeles during W.W.II. They were married in Roswell, New Mexico,...
Juanita Mae Ramay
Dec 3, 2009
Juanita Mae Ramay passed away December 3, 2009 in her residence. She was born in Hugo, Oklahoma on March 31, 1931 to Otha (Cody) and Luther Masser. She came to her hometown of Shafter as a young teenager, attended and graduated from Shafter High School in 1949, the same year she married her wonderful husband Hardy Ramay Jr. They...
Sharon Lea Noble
Nov 29, 2009
Sharon Lea Noble passed away November 29, 2009. She was born in Wisconsin on August 24, 1944 to Meuriel (Reich) and Andrew Jablonski and raised in Tacoma WA where she met and married Kenneth in 1964. They made their way to Shafter in 1986 where they've called home for the past 24 years. Sharon was a wonderful wife, a...
Carlos Ochoa
Nov 29, 2009
Carlos Ruiz Ochoa March 20, 1947 – November, 2009 Carlos Ruiz Ochoa was born on March 20, 1947 to Sara and Guillermo Ochoa in San Antonio Guaracha, Michoacan, Mexico. He was was a farm laborer for 48 years. He married Consuelo Ochoa and had four children. Carlos is preceded in death by his parents, Sara and Guillermo Ochoa and...
Joseph Wallace Turner
Nov 29, 2009
Joseph Wallace Turner was born and raised in Canton, Ohio, and graduated from St. John's High School in 1942. He entered the Navy in 1943 and served until 1946. He met Margie at the first of which became many dances and they were married in 1949. They followed Joe's job with PacBell to a new job in California in...
Leonardo - Encinas Acosta
Nov 26, 2009
Leonardo (Chano) Encinas Acosta was born in Ciudad Morelos, Baja California on June 21, 1978 to Rosa Elena (Acosta) and Daniel Araujo Encinas. He came to Kern County at the age of 2 years old, along with his eleven (11) siblings he was raised here in Shafter where he attended the local schools. Family was always first, whenever there...
Johnny Lloyd Timmerman
Nov 25, 2009
Johnny Lloyd Timmerman of Wasco, CA died on November 25, 2009 of natural causes. Johnny was born in Medford, Oregon on June 9, 1959 to Douglas & Vivian Timmerman. Most of Johnny's life was devoted to being ranch manager of Timmerman Farms. He spent a lot of his time with his family, or out shopping for treasures. He also...
Hattie Marie Roberts
Nov 23, 2009
Hattie M. Roberts was born February 3, 1912 in Grand Valley, Oklahoma one of nine children born to Sarah Eliza (Wauson) and Josephus MacGuthric Montgomery. Shortly after Hattie was born the family moved to Missouri, then to Brownfield, Texas. Hattie met her husband George Shellie Rosamond in Brownfield, Texas. Despite their age difference, George was over twenty years her...
Matilde Gonzalez Monarrez
Nov 22, 2009
Matilde Gonzalez Monarrez was born February 24, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas to Saturnina (Gutierrez) And Rafael Gonzalez. She married Salvador Monarrez August 2, 1953 and they celebrated 57 years of marriage this year. Matilde and Salvador worked as migrant farm laborers in New Mexico and Texas before settling in Lamont. Matilde's family loved her cooking and baking, persimmon cookies...
Charles Alvin Dickey
Nov 21, 2009
Charles Alvin Dickey was born June 14, 1928 in Azuza California to Lola Mae (Campbell) and Thomas Charles Dickey. He was the oldest of 4 children, raised in Arvin and attended the local schools. Charles enlisted with the Army in 1945 as a paratrooper and a demolition specialist. He met Velta (Davis) in 1951 and they married in 1966;...
Jose Bravo
Nov 19, 2009
Jose Bravo was born in Tangancicuaro Michoacan on September 12, 1957 to Jovita (Arteaga) and Alfredo C. Bravo. He came to Wasco at the age of 6 years and attended the local schools, was on the Wasco High School wrestling team and graduated in 1976. Jose was a handy man willing to fix anything that was broken, worked on...
