Garcia Siemens Engagement Surprise Marriage Notice
A surprise engagement announcement publicizes the planned July 29 1978 wedding for Stella Garcia daughter of Jesus and Maria Gutierrez Wasco to Jay Siemens son of John and Mary Siemens of 225 Grant Avenue Shafter. The couple met at Memorial Day May 28 1978 and will wed at Wasco Mennonite Brethren Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Garcia
Jesus Gutierrez
Wasco
Jay Siemens
John Siemens
Grant Avenue
Shafter
Wasco Mennonite Brethren Church
Med Garcia
Bridge
Hutchings Couple Return From Nomad Club Trip in California
Mr and Mrs Milton Hutchings are home in Shafter after a weeklong wedding journey visiting Yosemite Mount Lassen and Mount Shasta. The trip ended at Shastina Lake during the Nomad Club annual convention. AARP prayers recall Sylvia Baughman Edna Bender and Alfred Goehring amid health matters. Catalina Island tour by a 90 member AARP group included the Wrigley mansion Catalina Casino and glass bottom boat ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Hutchings
Shafter
Yosemite Park
Mount Lassen
Mount Shasta
Shastina Lake
Nomad Club
Hutchings
Shafter High School
Milton
de Best Plumbing, Inc
AARP
Sylvia Baughman
Edna Bender
Alfred Goehring
Bakersfield
Catalina Island
Aarp Tour
Wrigley Mansion
Catalina Casino
Barton–Allen nuptials in Dos Palos garden ceremony
Barton and John Allen wed in a 3:00 p.m. April 29, 1978 garden ceremony at the bride’s family home in Dos Palos. The double ring service was led by Reverend Fred L. Hawkins before about 40 relatives and friends. The bride, Louise Anne Barton, wore a nylon over taffeta gown with lace, a white hat, and three white carnations. The groom, Lance Corporal John Lee Allen, wore Marine dress blues. Guests included family from Bakersfield, Shafter, Dos Palos, Antioch, Firebaugh, Los Banos, and other areas, with after receptions in Dos Palos and at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Anne Barton
Bud Barton
West Orange Avenue
John Lee Allen
Tom Allen
Dos Palos
Fred L. Hawkins
Janie Sue Jones
Bakersfield
Herb Allen
Firebaugh
Barton
Allen
Shafter
Shafter High School
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
Lance Corporal
Dos Palos High School
The
Marine Corp
Marine Electronic School
Twenty-nine
Palms
California
Okinawa
B.F. Summers
Frank Jones
A.B. Barton
Don Dartnell
Dean and
Melaney
Reta Dartnell
Antioch
Laura Ann Fitch
Herbert Allen
Jeneane
Debbie Cullin
Kristine
Los Banos
Annie Navarro
Lucille Neal
Patricia Neal
Tommy Allen
Sherry Hawkins
Tanda Barton
Jimmy Cole
Gertrude Laird
Don Cantrell
Charlotte Lee
Virginia Mass
Guy Cantrell
Susan Lee
Cheryle Mass
Celia Lee
Kim Cantrell
Jerry Daniels
Shelly Brown
Jennifer Poznoff
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
F.L. Hawkins
Harry Legendre
Lis
Justin
Frank Summers
San Jose
Marvin Garlinger
North Edwards
Leon Large
Kevin
Ontario
David Collins
Riverside
David Chumley
Christopher Heather
Todd
Bryce
Dinuba
James Norton
Visalia
Jerry Jones
Tracy Lee
Susie Jones
F.W. Jones
Bill Davies
Wasco
Missionary Sister to Visit St. Therese Church in Shafter
Sister Aquina, a Holy Cross Missionary from South Africa, travels from Soweto to Shafter for a week long visit with her brother Father John A. Delany, pastor of St. Therese Church. She has spent forty years working with Zulus in Soweto, Johannesburg, before returning to Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aquina
Holy Cross
South Africa
Shafter
Ireland
John A. Delany
St. Therese Church
Soweto
Johannesburg
South
Birth of Patricia Acosta in Africa and parish events
Mr and Mrs Louis Acosta announce the birth of their daughter Patricia on June 11 1978 at North Kern Hospital. She weighs ten pounds 15½ ounces and is 22 inches long. Patricia will be the principal of a grammar and high school for Zulu children and will speak at 5:30 Mass on Saturday June 24 and at all Masses Sunday June 25 with a parish pot-luck at 6 p.m. for all who wish to meet Sister Aquina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Acosta
Patricia
Africa
Aquina
A.m
North Kern Hospital
AARP Picnic in Stringham Park and Local Meeting
A noon AARP picnic in Stringham Park for Shafter Chapter 2809 drew about ninety members. Ed Crane performed as a one man band before a short meeting led by President W C Walker. Members urged letters to legislators against SB104S limiting OTC drug sales to pharmacies for a year and to attend a Shafter council meeting on proposed utility rate hikes. Special senior discounts offered for Star- Life Kern productions Guys and Dolls on June 29 and West Side Story on July 26. Lois Robinson announced two Lompoc Solvang tour seats at 19 dollars, with details and reservations. A blood bank proposal was discussed, and five Kern Crest Manor guests attended. Andrew Heier, 87, recited poems to the audience. Earl Cook won the door prize. Next meeting set for July 17 at 1 30 p m with a planned film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Shafter Veteran’s Hall
Food and Drug Administration
Shafter
Star-Life of Kern Productions
Guys and Dolls
Lois Robinson
Sylvia Baughman
Kern Crest Manor
Andrew Heier
Earl Cook
First Southern Baptist Church hosts Back Packers Suite drama
The First Southern Baptist Church invites all to a Friday performance of the musical drama Back Packers Suite by Koinonia of Esplanade Baptist Church from Chico California. The choir tour presents one show at 7 30 p m at 250 North Kern Avenue Shafter admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Southern Baptist Church
Koinonia of
Esplanade Baptist Church
Chico
Calif
N. Kern
Shafter
Shafter Press Adjudicated Legal Monepener Record
The Shafter Press published weekly at 154 Central Avenue Shafter California 93263 notes its second class status with entry at the Shafter Post Office on August 1 1935 and mentions adjudication of a legal matter under Order No 29926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Avenue Shafter
California
Shafter
Congress
Soven
Shafter California
Also Mentioned on This Page
Garcia
Wasco High School
Song and Rooters Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Wasco Police Department
Siemens
Maple School
Black
Shafter Merchants
Jay
Tenneco West
Pistachio Division
Jeanette Wheeler
John Allen
Ed Crane
Shafter American Association of Retired Persons
Stringham Park
W.C
St. Francis de Sales
Catalina
John Notley
Catherine Weyand
Mary Ellen Newman
Ank WW. and
Donaloql, Reed
North Pine Street
Roger Trautmann
Menno Schellenberg
Shafter Missionary Baptist Church
Golden West
Church OF the Nazarene
W. Lordo J. Paul, Alexander
Mennonite Rethren Church
Kern
Henry Harder
Jim Wiens
Frice
KWSO
Plittocostae Church OF God
S. Shafter Ave
Sun
James McDowell
E. Tulare Ave. Shafter
Owen C. Onsum
Congregational Church
Shafter United Methodist Church
Seventh Day Adventist School
Riverside & Ponlar
Charles P. Hamby
Richland Ave
Sam Hensley
Church of God
G.B. Kingsland
Bible Preaching Church
Ebenezer
God
Arty
LE Sunshine Station
Mike McCutchan
Gary Hurley
First Assembly
Elm Street
John P. Davis
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