Bridal Shower Blesses Shafter Bride Freda Fowler
Freda Fowler and Charles Brown wed in a Pentecostal Church of God ceremony conducted by Rev. Cecil Pool. The couple, from Shafter and Ontario, Ohio, planned a wedding trip to Ontario after a Friday ceremony. A Saturday bridal shower hosted by Raynetta Mann honored the newlyweds with games, cake, and gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentecostal Church of God
Freda Fowler
Clifford Fowler
Shafter Avenue
Charles Brown
E. C. Brown
Ontario
Calif
Cecil Pool
Carolyn Wilson
Shafter
Brown
Shafter High School
Buck Eye
Arizona
California
Raynetta Mann
East Lerdo
Arlene Roskam
Dance of the Month Club Hosts Swimming Party
About 50 members attended the swimming party and pot-luck dinner at Richland Pool and Memorial Park last Thursday. The event began with swimming from 8 to 9 pm, followed by a chicken pot-luck and, for the ambitious, a volleyball session to close.
Elsie Marie Brown Weds Robert S. Garrison in Bakersfield
In a 7:45 p m ceremony at Hillcrest Baptist Church Bakersfield Miss Elsie Marie Brown daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben B Brown and Robert S Garrison son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Garrison of Tonawanda New York were united in a double ring wedding before about 150 relatives. Rev R Vander Littlejohn officiated with organist Leo Heinrichs. bridal party included Loretta Becker Fresno as bridesmaid and Wesley Brown as best man. The couple plans a Tonawanda New York wedding trip. both completed schooling and employment plans noted with Navy service for the groom aboard USS Oriskany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Marie Brown
Ben B. Brown
Klassen Drive
Robert S. Garrison
Alfred Garrison
Tonawanda
New York
Hillcrest Baptist Church
Bakersfield
R. Vander Littlejohn
Beverly Eileen Schultz
Larry Allen Klassen
Cheryl Dianne Brown
Ronnie Lynn Nikkel
Wesley Brown
Franklin, Bergman
Norman Buller
Shafter
Fresno
Walter Rohrer
Paul
Frank Rowland
Mary Helen Wiebe
Herb Wichert
Merced
Roy Perry
Bryant Sheldon
Gilroy
Elmer “Klassen
Larry
Dennis
Douglas
Sacramento
Clifford Cornelson
Violet Itzenhauser
Marion Kattenhorn
Corporal Kattenhorn
E. V. Kattenhorn
Miss Itzenhauser
Donna Marie Kattenhorn
Lloyd
Kath- Teor
Jensen Family Hosts Patio Barbecue Evening
A Saturday patio barbecue hosted by Dr and Mrs Grant Jensen of Manuel Avenue drew a small group of guests. New guest Chuck Tiner, soon to be English and journalism teacher at Shafter High School, attended with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Jensen
Manuel Avenue
Chuck Tiner
Acacia Street
Shafter High School
Burley Dooley
John
Annette
Tom Oury
Peggy
Harold Stanton Replaces Miller at Shafter Cotton Field
Harold Stanton and his family moved into a home on Faber Street as Miller departs Shafter Station for Beltsville Maryland. Miller led mechanization for two years and will stay until mid July. A picnic at Manne Park drew about eighty attendees with a farewell to the Millers and a welcome for Stanton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Miller
Shafter Cotton Field
Manne Park
Miller
Beltsville
Maryland
Figures Show Increase At Shafter High
Enrollment at Shafter High for 1953-54 reached 789 students with 439 boys and 350 girls. Peak 623 on October 31, daily absences 12 to 25 with half due to illness. Evening school 201 adults. Saturday Continuation 82 students. Prepared by Kathleen Warren, Attendance Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Kathleen Warren
Maple 4-H Club Awards Fete At Family Picnic
Prizes for best and most enthusiastic Maple 4-H Club work went to Dianne Loepp Karen Wiens Evelyn Penner and Norma Nicol in clothing and to Karen Wiens Evelyn Penner and Ruth Wittenberg in food preparation. A short meeting planned sewing for a philanthropic project and a note of appreciation was signed for Mrs. Allen Bartel. The event included a pot luck supper and swimming at Richland Pool with many members and families in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mannel Park
Dianne Loepp
Karen Wiens
Evelyn Penner
Norma Nicol
Ruth Wittenberg
Allen Bartel
Maple Ptaa
Lela Kelley
Norma
Nicole
Richland Pool
Ernest
Jens
Karen
Gary
Kay J
Jonas
Nickel
Karin
Ronald
Phil
John Balzer
Janice
Sharon
Walter Nicol
Kenneth
Frank Loewen
Henrietta
Frank Loepp
Dianne
Ida Koenig
Henry Penner
Evelyn
Albert
Lydia
Ernest’ Siemens
Carolyn
Mark
Dale
Brian
Ruth Ann Wittenberg
Beverly Ehrhorn
Don Ruggenbergs Return From Wisconsin Vacation
The Don Ruggenbergs of 400 Manuel Avenue return this week from a Wisconsin trip. They helped celebrate the Golden Wedding Anniversary of her parents. A jovial letter from them says they were rained out of Jackson's Hole snowed out of Yellowstone and on the trail of a tornado through the Dakotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Ruggenbergs
Manuel Avenue
Wisconsin
Wile
Jackson's Hole
Yellowstone
Dakotas
Berkshire Family Welcomes First Child in June
Private and Mrs Berkshire announce the birth of their son William Glenn on June 23 weighing eight pounds nine ounces. Wilma Jean Fowler graduates Bake High School in 1953. Private Bertraire Berkshire is stationed in Virginia and to wed later. Don Bickner and wife welcome daughter Donjia Rena born June 25 at 11:40 a.m. in Miss Freise’s Maternity Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Kern County
Sill
Ben Sill
Charles
Hugh
Jack
Memorial Hospital
Mercy
Private
Berkshire
Young
William ‘Glenn
Wilma Jean Fow
Bake
Wlerene Fowler
Don Bickner
Miss Freise
Donjia Rena
Bickner
Germany
Ed Rueb
East Lerdo
Pearl Harbor
Flower Leis
Dear ‘A. ‘Glenn
Geneva
David
Hawaii
Glenn
Mary J. Glenn
Bok
Shafter
Calif
1St Air‘and Naval Gunfire’ Liaison Company
Camp Catlin
Oahu
T.H
Glenn‘is
Shafter Farmers Acquire 40 Acres in March 1925
MISS MARION wecaperk AND HERNDONE became Shafter farmers in March 1925 by acquiring 40 acres from the Manuel or chards lineage of J. H. Carver. The property included three acres of alfalfa, 10 acres of bearing grapes, with the Hitchcocks growing potatoes on three acres and aiming to plant the rest in cotton.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Denie Hodges
Chas. Brown
Freda Brown
Miss Mann
Freda
Virginia, Mendenhall
Carolyn Jenkins
Barbara Absher
Shirley Ballard
Barbara Prickett
Shirley Prickett
Glenda Frost
Jeannie Reeder
Donna Michael
Norma Mixon
Pentecostal’Church of God
Shafter Ave
West Ash
General ‘Electric
General Electric
Garrison
Loretta Becker
Kattenhorn
Albert Kattenhorn
Jana Marie
Glen
San Dimas
C. O. Kattenhorn
Kathleen
Jonathan
Poplar
Charles Hutto
Ronnie
Connie
Covina
L. A. Kattenhorn
Itzenhauser
Washington
Ft. Lewis
Jensens
Harold Stanton
Rawleigh
Voyd'n. Pallard
Rawleigh Dealer
Marengo Ave
Stauffer
Esa Eae
Lee Ee
Ial
Rere
Siam Eae
Stauffer Chemical Company
S.A. Camp- Fertilizer & Insecticide CO
Staufter
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