Mary Ellen Rexius
Jun 2, 2022
Mary Ellen Rexius was born in Alton, Missouri, to Charles and Pearl (Blakley) Boyd. She was educated in Missouri schools and taught elementary school there for seven years. In 1947, she answered an advertisement in a Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper recruiting teachers for Kern County. She took the train to Wasco and always joked that she arrived that August, on...
Howard Jean Rhine
Jun 1, 2022
Howard Jean Rhine is survived by his loving wife of sixty-one years, Marion Rhine and his six kids - daughter, Karen and husband, Bill Keeney; son, Rick and wife, Bertha Rhine; daughter, Lisa and husband, Randy Mizell; daughter, Taleda and husband, Nolan Campbell; son, Danny Rhine; daughter, Krystle and husband, Greg Rodriguez; along with numerous grandkids and great-grandkids. Howard...
Herbert Stover
May 28, 2022
Herbert Stover was born July 7, 1933 to Lonnie and Odella Stover in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Missouri at age 4 . As a child He and His family lived and farmed in several areas of Southeastern Missouri, consequently he went to several different schools, some of them merely one room schoolhouses. He graduated from...
Joe Edward Parten
May 23, 2022
Joe Edward Parten was born May 8, 1935 to Edgar and Bertha Parten in Pocahontas, Arkansas. When Joe was around 10 years old the family relocated to Tulare County, California. When Joe was 17 we met Willie Mae Rice and the two were married in 1953 in Visalia, Ca. Joe and Willie had 6 children, settling in Wasco Ca...
Herma Lou Hight
May 20, 2022
Herma Hight was born July 29, 1937 to Lonnie and Odella Stover in New Madrid, Missouri. As a child She and Her family lived and farmed in several areas of Southeastern Missouri, consequently she went to several different schools, some of them merely one room schoolhouses. At age 16 the family relocated to California where she completed Her education...
Jose Lopez Dominguez
May 20, 2022
Jose Lopez Dominguez, 80, of Wasco, passed away on May 19, 2022. Jose was born March 22, 1942, in San Rafael, Jalisco, Mexico to Pedro Dominguez and Maria Lopez. He left home at the age of 17 for the United States and began working in agriculture to help support his mother and siblings. Jose worked in agriculture for nearly...
Shirley Bowman
May 19, 2022
Devoted Wife, Mother, Grandmother Shirley Darlene Bowman went to heaven on May 19, 2022. She was born in Modesto, CA to Leslie and Luella Eikenberry, one of 4 children. Shirley grew up in Modesto attending Modesto schools. Shirley met her husband, Lloyd, during World War II when he worked in a clothing distribution center in Modesto, CA. They married...
Eddie Dee Johnson
May 17, 2022
Eddie passed away suddenly, at his home in Wasco, CA on May 18, 2022. Eddie was born December 27, 1943, in Alameda, CA to his parents Lois Sargent Johnson and Herman Johnson. Herman, Eddie's father, died when Eddie was 13 months old. Lois then moved the family to Wasco. Eddie dedicated many years working for the City of Wasco...
Randall Priest
May 16, 2022
HE LIVED, LOVED, AND LAUGHED Randy Priest, age 66, born December 10, 1955 in Michigan and went to his Heavenly Eternal Home on May 16, 2022 after suffering from a heart condition. Randy recently accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior and was baptized on March 27th. Randy was a graduate of Wasco High, class of 1973 and was...
Glen Dean Shaw
May 14, 2022
With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Glen Dean Shaw. He passed peacefully to his heavenly home on May 14, 2022, in Bakersfield, California. He was born April 22, 1943, to Glen Boone Shaw and Opal Vivian Shaw (Castleberry). He is survived by his wife Judith, her son Gordon Cheek and Glen's four children, Cindy Wonderly (Mike), Michelle...
Elva L Preston
May 10, 2022
Elva Lee Preston was born in Wasco, CA on June 21,1931. She met her Redeemer face to face May 10, 2022. She is preceded in death by her parents Juan & Daphne Thompson. She is preceded in death by sisters Dorothy Shields and Lassie Samuel. She is survived by her sister Jessie Warner. She met her husband Frank Preston...
Rosetta Brown
May 8, 2022
Rose Etta Jones was born November 1, 1943, second youngest daughter of twelve to parents William R. Jones and Rosa Nance in Knoxville, Tennessee. Around 1966 she moved to California with her husband Marvin Cantrell and two young sons Gregory and Curtis. In those days she did what she could to help make ends meet. She worked at a...
