Michael Jess Tiger
Nov 28, 2007
Michael Jess Tiger was born November 11, 1967 in Wasco, California to Jack Tiger and Charlotte Osborn Tiger McPhetridge. He grew up in Wasco and graduated from Wasco High School with the Class of 1985 and attended Bakersfield College. He worked for Save Mart in Wasco for 5 years and then began his 12-year career as a correctional officer...
Robert Ybarra
Nov 21, 2007
Robert Ybarra was born November 4, 1949 in Sacramento, California to Serafin and Margaret (Dingman) Ibarra. He was raised in Arizona then come to work for Jackson & Perkins in Wasco in 1967. This is when he met Maria Martinez and they were married August 26, 1968. Robert went to work for Rancher's Cottonseed Oil and became a member...
Eloisa Perez Lopez
Nov 21, 2007
Eloisa Lopez, age 88, was born November 18, 1919 in Yuma, Arizona to Cornelio Verela and Sarah (Gonzales) Perez. She came to Arvin, California in 1952 and in the early 1980's she moved to Bakersfield where she lived with her daughter. She worked was a farm labor during the summers. Eloisa was a raiders fan she enjoyed crossword puzzles,...
Betty Lou Ellis
Nov 18, 2007
Betty Lou went to be with her Heavenly Father Sunday morning, 11/18/07, after living a joyous and healthy eighty-six years. Born November 14, 1921 to Lemuel and Louisa Mussetter in De Smet, South Dakota, she moved with her family to Wasco in 1935 where her father found gainful employment building homes in the Wasco area. She graduated from Wasco...
Eliseo Martinez Gonzalez
Nov 15, 2007
Eliseo was born in Los Ramones, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to Crecencio and Bruna Gonzalez on September 13, 1944. The family moved to Caruthers, California in 1956, and Eliseo help his family financial working in the grapes. He married Minerva Gomez on January 9, 1966, in Shafter. Eliseo worked as a farm laborer for Bergman and Isaac for 23 years...
Robert Henry Jackson
Nov 15, 2007
Bob was born November 15, 1935 to Percy and Anna Jackson in Rosiclare, Illinois. He passed away suddenly, yet peacefully, at home on his 72nd birthday. As a young man, he moved to Wyoming where he worked as a cowboy until joining the U.S Army, 11th Airborne Division, serving in Augsburg, Germany. He returned to Wyoming where he worked...
Joyce Marie Jameson
Nov 12, 2007
Joyce Marie Jameson 07/26/1940 – 11/12/2007 Joyce Marie Jameson was born in Bakersfield, on July 26, 1940, to William and Lizzie Jameson. The family lived in Shafter for 11 years and eventually relocated to Porterville. Arrangements were under the direction of Peters Funeral Home. Interment was private. Please sign Joyce's guest book at www.goldenvalleymemorialcare.com.
Eddie Floyd Lane
Nov 12, 2007
Eddie Floyd Lane was born June 6, 1942 in Monroe, Oklahoma to Floyd and Mary (Williams) Lane. In 1944 the family moved to California and Eddie attended local elementary schools and graduated from Shafter High School with the Class of 1960. Eddie entered the Army in 1964 and was honorably discharged in 1970. During his time in the service...
George Watson Jr.
Nov 12, 2007
George Watson Jr., "Red" as he was called by everyone, passed in his sleep after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin to George and Marie Watson on December 25, 1934. He was a hard working man who could do just about anything he put his mind to. He served in the Wisconsin National Guard...
Christopher Joseph Johnson
Nov 9, 2007
Christopher Joseph Johnson was born February 28, 1978 in Bakersfield, California to Johnathan and Mary (Wankum) Johnson. A life-long resident of Bakersfield he attended Horace Mann Elementary School, Compton Jr. High and graduated from East High School with the class of 1996. In his youth he attended St. Joseph's Catholic Church where he received his First Communion. He married...
Juan Lorenzo Velarde
Nov 9, 2007
Juan Lorenzo Velarde was born May 8, 2006 in Bakersfield to Juan Velarde and Denise Garcia. Juan Lorenzo is survived by his parents; brothers, Oscar and Eric; sisters, Maura and Kimberly; grandparents, Jesus and Manuela Martinez and Maura Ruiz, all of Lamont; and by many loving aunts, uncles, cousins. A funeral service will be held Thursday, November 15 at...
Beatrice Thompson
Nov 9, 2007
Beatrice was born to John and Ida (Ogden) Kinsey on April 7, 1911, in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. She married Jack Thompson in 1931 and they moved to Shafter in 1937 during the Dust Bowl era with her two young sons. The times were hard but Jack was able to build a two-room dirt floor house for them to live...
Eva R. Estavillo
Nov 8, 2007
Eva Estavillo was born on June 11, 1944, to Alex and Cedra Estavillo in Shafter. She attended the local schools and eventually moved to San Jose. While in San Jose Eva was employed as a school bus driver until her health failed. Eva enjoyed playing bingo and going to the casinos. She also enjoyed traveling and going south of...
Clay Edward Panter
Nov 8, 2007
Clay Edward Panter was born October 23, 1927 in Wasco, California to Ed and Bertha (Ratzlaff) Panter. He attended local schools and graduated from Wasco Union High School with the Class of 1945. He was drafted into the Army in 1945 and served in World War II as a clerk for the Chaplin's Division stationed in the Phillipines, earning...
Rachel Level
Nov 2, 2007
A funeral service has been scheduled for Saturday, November 10, 2007, 1pm at Peters Funeral Home chapel in Wasco with interment following at Wasco Memorial Park for Rachel Level, 75, of Wasco who passed away November 2, 2007. Visitation will be Friday from 2-8pm at the funeral home. Rachel was born September 15, 1932 in Texarkana, Texas, the third...
Harvey Harry Harbison
Nov 2, 2007
Harvey was born on December 13, 1920 in Jasper, IN and passed away November 2, 2007 in Shafter, CA with his wife by his side. He and his two brothers were raised in an orphanage in Petersburg, IN and he graduated from high school in Evansville, IN in 1939. In 1941 he entered the army in Kentucky and was...
Refugio Varella Torres
Nov 1, 2007
Refugio Varella Torres was born July 4, 1929 in Brownsville, Texas to Ricardo and Isidra (Villareal) Torres. Refugio worked from a very young age and entered into the Army. He worked in Germany cleaning mines in the late fifties. Refugio moved to Arizona where he worked for Mormon Church Farms for forty-two years until his retirement. Refugio married Mary...
Emil Henry Struemph
Nov 1, 2007
Emil Henry Struemph was born January 6, 1927 in Freeburg, Missouri to Henry Jay and Gertrude Ann (Richter) Struemph, one of 10 children. He served his country in the Merchant Marines during Would War II from 1943 to 1945 and answered the call to service again, this time in the Army during the Korean Conflict from 1950 to 1952...
Frank Lee Escobedo, Jr.
Oct 31, 2007
Frank Lee Escobedo, Jr. was born in Torrington, Wyoming, to Frank and Rose Escobedo, on August 2, 1958. The family came to Shafter when Frank was in his early teens. He attended both Shafter and Wasco High. He married Eva Trujillo on October 14, 1984, in Shafter, Ca. Frank worked as a warehouse distribution supervisor for several years, but...
Patricia Macneil
Oct 28, 2007
Patricia "Pat" Mac Neil was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. She received her education at St. Joseph's School of Nursing where she became a registered nurse. She was a long time resident of Shafter. Before her retirement, she worked for several years at Golden Living Center (Shafter Health Care), where she was the Director of Nursing for twenty years....
