La Rosa Chapter 146 installs new officers in Wasco
The 8th installation of officers for La Rosa Chapter 146 Order of Eastern Star occurred November 24 at Wasco Masonic Temple. Velma Downey becomes Worthy Matron. Pauline Copeland and Perry Copeland named Associate Matron and Patron. other officers include Irvin Barr secretary Ethel Douglas treasurer Nelie DeWitt Conductress Lenora Porter and Conductor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Rosa
Order of Eastern Star
Wasco Masonic Temple
Velma Downey
Pauline Copeland
Assoc
Perry Copeland
Irvin Barr
Ethel Douglas
Nelie DeWitt
Lenora Porter
Faye B
Jack Hammons
Velma Guenther
Polly Hollingsworth
Adah
Frances Cazaly
Ruth
Nona~ Bynum
Esther
Anna Kramer
Martha
Bernice Wildharber
Electa
Berenice Hamilton
Clarence Kleist
Cordelia Burt
Fred Dillard
Connie Hooks
Beneteen Montgomery
Faye Barr
Cordelia Barr
Barbara Hoffman
52Nd District
la Rosa Chapter
William Burnett
State of California
Faye
Faye Kester
Elysie Campbell
Christmas Candlelight Concert by Mennonite Brethren Choir
The Mennonite Brethren Church Choir presents its Annual Christmas Candlelight Concert on Sunday evening December 23 at 7 00 pm. The program features traditional carols anthems and new Christmas music led by a noted director with Doris Unruh at the organ Betty Bergman on piano and Don Loveless as narrator. Friends of the community are invited to celebrate the birth of the Lord.
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Mennonite Brethren Church Choir
Sok Atasi
Doris Unruh
Betty Bergman
Don Loveless
Lord
Fraley Couple Welcome First Child Stephanie Louise
The Fraley family of Shafter welcomes their first child a girl named Stephanie Louise born Thursday November 29 at 2 10 p.m. at North Kern Hospital. The baby weighed six pounds three ounces and measured 20 inches. Grandparents are Noah Fraley of Los Angeles and Virgil Stroud of Shafter.
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Larry
Ruby Fraley
Shafter
North Kern Hospital
Stephanie Louise
Noah Fraley
Los Angeles
Virgil Stroud
SDA plans Christmas banquet and student program
The Shafter Seventh-Day Adventist Elementary School Home and School Association will host a Christmas banquet on December 20 in the recreation hall. A student-led program of songs and readings, with a dinner fund-raiser for the eighth grade, features performances by Rodacker and Weishaar students, including a finale of two piano solos Deck the Halls and Twas the Night Before Christmas.
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Home and School Association
Shafter Seventh-Day Adventist
Eveniing
Virgil
Luis Arviso
Wally Weishaar
Mr. Rodacker
Mrs. Rodacker
CBMC December speakers include Ortiz and Palmquist guest
The Christian Business Men's Committee of Bakersfield held Thursday luncheons at Yee's Steak House at Noon. December speakers included Richard Ortiz an insurance agent from Bakersfield on the 20th and Philip Palmquist a Bakersfield accountant on the 27th. Manuel Alva and John Fisher also spoke on earlier December dates.
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Christian Business Men's Committee
Richard Ortiz
Bakersfield
Manuel
Manny) Alva
Century 21
John Fisher
McNabbs celebrate 50th anniversary in California
McNabbs of Shafter mark their 50th wedding anniversary with a Lions Den buffet in Buttonwillow. Sixty five friends attended. honorees married in Oklahoma on October 23, 1929 and moved to California in the 1930s. Son Jimmy and daughter-in-law hosted with relatives from Arcata, Buttonwillow, Sabah, and other cities. A money-tree gift was presented as the couple, now with eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren, were saluted.
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Jim McNabb
Shafter
Lions den
Buttonwillow
Jimmy McNabb
Harlen’ McNabb
Arcata
Weston Walch
Sabah
Malaysia
Oklahoma
California
Buck Owens Rodeo Queen Contest opens with Jill Schwebel
17 year old Jill Schwebel enters Kern County Buck Owens Rodeo Frontier Days Queen Contest to raise funds for cancer research. Contest coordinator Joan Maguire Bison welcomes her as first contestant. Prizes total 2250 across the queen and two runners up with proceeds benefiting Kern County Unite the American Cancer Society.
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Jill Schwebel
Garces
Jill
Judie Schwebel
Bakersfield
Joan Maguire Bison
Kern County
Buck Owens Rodeo & Frontier
American Cancer Society
Ballet Dancer Joins Christmas Eve St Mark's Service
St Mark's Episcopal Church will host a Festival Holy Eucharist at 11:00 P.M. on Christmas Eve featuring ballet dancer Margaret Johnson and organist John Hord under the direction of Fr. Frederick Johnson. A Christmas morning service at 10:00 A.M. is also planned. Both services welcome visitors.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Frederick Johnson
Margaret Johnson
John Hord
St. Mark’s
Fr. Johnson
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Anita Ramirez
Ruth Ortiz
Julie Ramirez
Edy
Beth Rodacker
Terri Lewis
Mathew’ le Noir
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Martha Novak
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W.A. Scates
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Kansas
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Oakland
J.W. Thacker
Blue Lake
Ellis Thaker
D.P. Thaker
Medford
Oregon
Seth Ford
Cottonwood
L.L. Haworth
Ada, Okla
Ronald Romine
San Fran
Cisco
Maude McNabb
Monterey Park
Mrs. Perry Odell
Emmet
Juano
Bert Smith
Garden Grove
Roy Smith
Herbie Watkins
Fresno
Herb Watkins
Mr. and
Mrs
Rodeo
Richland Ave
Sam Hensley
Henry Harder
Jim Wiens
Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern
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John A. Delany
Pentecostal Church OF God
S. Shafter Ave
Sun
P.Y.P.A
Fred L. Hanshew
Bible Fellowship
Owen C. Onsum
Reformed Church
Sunset & James
Shafter United Methodist
Wors
Rev. G
Ted Larson
W. Lerdo Hwy
Church of God
Full Gospel Bible
Assembly OF God
Elm Street
John P. Davis
Chuck Boulet
Central Avenue Shafter
Congress
Shafter Press
Frank W. and
Donald L. Reed
Rick Lawler
Publishers News
First Southern Baptist Church
H.D. Rutledge Pastor
Noel Weeks
Kernat Tulare
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Marie Schellenberg
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