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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1995
Page
3
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture invites players to buy one of 100 squares at $50 each for the 1995 Cow Pie Bingo Contest. The event, on May 20 at Manne Park, offers a $1,000 prize to the winner and benefits the SCCA community efforts.
The calendar lists Kiwanis at Vet's Hall noon and American Legion events at Vets Hall and Ed Mig at Senior Center on Wednesday April 12. AARP meetings at Senior Center and Library Conference room, plus Friends of the Library at 5 p.m. Tuesday April 18 includes Rotary at Shafter Motel 6:30 a.m. and American Legion Auxiliary at Vets Hall 1 p.m. Shafter Planning Commission meets at City Hall 7 p.m.
On Sunday April 16 birthday wishes go to John Kadel and Frank Sherman. On April 17 Jeanne G Fuller Brian Henley and Mert Wiedman celebrate. Sonia Searcy shares a birthday on April 17 while Brooke Dunstan has April 18 as her day.
David Serrano Perales 81 of Shafter died April 5. Services April 9 at Peters Funeral Chapel followed by burial at Wasco Memorial Park. Born May 24 1913, he lived in Wasco since the 1930s and opened Dave's Garage in 1937. Survived by wife Barbara and many children, siblings, 28 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren.
Visitation for Maria Ana Perea thirty eight was held at Peters Funeral Home Chapel on April 7 and 8 in Bakersfield. She died April 5 and her body was shipped to Mexico for burial at Cementerio Municipal. She was born April 18 1956 in San Joaquin Sinaloa and had lived in Shafter seven years. She is survived by two sons Gaston Obed and Guadalupe Lerma both of Shafter and by her siblings Virginia Manuela Victoria Adelfa Rafael Ramona Angelita Hindulfo and Maria del Rosario.
Graveside services for Walter Mosier Sheffield, 79, of Moreno Valley, California, were held April 10, 1995 at Shafter Memorial Park. A US Army veteran of seven campaigns, he was born April 26, 1915 in Sparks Oklahoma and lived in Shafter, Riverside, and Tulare County.
Theodore Ted Johnson, 44, died March 31, 1995 in Bakersfield. Funeral held April 5 at Shafter Memorial Park with Chaplain Ned Chaffin. Born Oct 9, 1950 in Shafter to Theodore J. and Blanche Johnson, he served two Vietnam tours as a helicopter medic and earned the Purple Heart and Medal of Honor. He is survived by his mother Blanche, sisters Dorothy Evans Darla Cantrell Peggy Jennings Pat Reich Maxine Johnson and brothers Glen Johnson and Ken Johnson.
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