Shafter Community Groups Plan Activities and Anniversaries
Shafter High School prepares to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with planning by patrons staff students and faculty. The Book Study group delays its March meeting to read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee with Catherine White hosting at 10:00 a.m. AARP hosts a potluck and business meeting on March 20 with Edna Bender arranging menu items. New apartments near Mennonite Brethren Church expected by April 1 with applications via the church or Henry Ratzlaff. Hazel Frizzell to teach painting to club members. Sylvia Baughman notes seats remain for the March 23 trip to Los Angeles including lunch at Alexandra Hotel for $17. The Business and Professional Women's Club plans a March 16 potluck with a Fresno attorney discussing legislation. The public is invited to Heartbeat evaluations at Richland School March 9 with Dr. Scharfenberg detailing the process. Delois Witcher honored at a retirement dinner at Chateau Basque in Bakersfield with about 100 attendees.
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Shafter Woman's Club
Catherine White
Sylvia Baughman
AARP
Cip
Alexandra Hotel
New Bonaventura Hotel
Los Angeles
Alexandra
Sylvia
Haworth-Lindgren vows set for April 1 wedding
Mr and Mrs George Haworth of 645 Hofman Drive Shafter announce the engagement of their daughter Lisa to Jeff Lindgren son of Mr and Mrs Phil Lindgren of Porterville California The wedding is planned for Saturday April 1 1978 at 2 00 pm at Union Congregational Church in Shafter The couple announced the engagement at a January 22 family dinner Lisa is a Shafter High School graduate with studies at Bakersfield College Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Bakersfield Jeff is Porterville High School and Porterville College educated set to earn a BS in Mechanical Engineering in March and will join Schlumberger Company
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George Haworth
Hofman Drive
Shafter
Lisa
Jeff Lindgren
Phil Lindgren
Porterville
California
Union Congregational
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
California Polytechnic College
San Luis Obispo
California State College
Bakersfield
Job
Bethel
Wasco
Jeff
Porterville High School
Porterville College
Schlumberger Company
Graveside rites for Myrtle Southall in Shafter Park
Myrtle Southall 80 died March 3 in a Bakersfield Hospital. Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. Monday at Shafter Memorial Park with Pastor Paul Johnson officiating. She was born in Evensville Indiana and moved to California in 1966 settling in Shafter. Survivors: Ernest Southall of Lost Hills Bari Southall of Arkansas two sisters Daisy Todd Flossie Watson fourteen grandchildren and twenty one great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.
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Shafter Memorial Park
Myrtle Southall
Minter
Bakersfield
Paul Johnson
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Southall
Evensville
Indiana
California
Shafter
Ernest ‘Southall
Lost Hills
Bari Southall
Ark
Daisy Todd
Flossie Watson
Phil Hart
Albert Albiar
Merle
Oliver
Don Ray
Kent Foster
Sam Sheffield
Miss Handel to Marry Cooper in Stockdale Church
Kim Handel and Rick Cooper plan a June 17 wedding at First Methodist Church in Stockdale at 7:00 p.m. Kim, a 1973 Shafter High graduate, has studied at Bakersfield College San Diego State University and Humboldt State College and works in education preparing for a teaching credential. Rick, a Humboldt State senior majoring in range management, hopes to pursue remote sensing after graduation. The couple’s future home depends on employment locations.
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Kim
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
San Diego State University
Humboldt State College
Humboldt
Rick
Six Shafter Students Attend Valley Forge Leadership Seminar
Six Kern County students from Shafter High School will join FFVF Youth Leadership Seminar attendees at Valley Forge. Julie Horn Karla Nash Carol Starrh Donald Case Ed Kirk and Mark Kirschenmann are named participants. The four day program runs March 9 15 for boys with chaperones Eugene Burmeister and Ray Oxley and March 16 22 for girls.
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Shafter High School
Kern County
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Toby Sears
Julie Horn
Karla Nash
Carol Starrh
Donald Case
Ed Kirk
Mark Kirschenmann
Eugene Burmeister
Sunset School
Ray Oxley
Highland High School
Miller couple celebrate remarriage with 150 guests
Mr and Mrs Henry Miller hosted a reception at Staffer Veterans Hall on Sunday for about 150 guests celebrating their remarriage. They wed at Gretna Green Chapel Las Vegas on Christmas Day. attendees traveled from Shafter Bakersfield Wasco Tehachapi and elsewhere.
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Henry Miller
Veteran’s Hall
Clara Schnidt
Gretna Green Chapel
Las Vegas
Elaine Cramer
Sylvia Baughman
Evelyn Walker
Doris Long
Shirley Farmer
Pat Thompson
Ann Stoller
Bill Long
Canoga Park
Wasco
Isabel Best
Fay Kester
Waldo Unruh
Cora Willard
Catherine Lauderdale
Kgona Garriott
Tehachapi
Okldale
al Unruh
Stanford Cook
Gerald Unruh
Miller
Herb Covert
Miami
Heritage Days Queen Contest Accepting Applications
Kern County residents ages seventeen to thirty as of application date may enter the Heritage Days Queen Contest announced by Chairman Mrs Merry Williams. The queen and her court will reign over the April twenty ninth to thirtieth event. For information contact Mrs Williams at 393-2038 or visit Kern County Museum for an application.
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Merry Williams
Kern County
Williams
Local Student Enlists in Delayed Air Force Program
Elias Vela, son of Mr and Mrs Florencio G Vela of 435 So Wall St Shafter, has enlisted in the US Air Force Delayed Enlistment Program per recruiter Sgt Mike Baca of Bakersfield. He attends Shafter High and plans to graduate in July then begin Regular Air Force on August 14 after six weeks of basic training.
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Ing Shafter High
Elias
Air Force
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Jeanette Wheeler
Ing
W.C. Walker
Edna Bender
Mennonite Brethers Church
Henry Ratzlaff
Hazel Frizzell
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Martha Peters
Fresno
Virginia Perry
Richland School
Scharfenberg
San Joaquin Community Hospital
Meat Cutters Union
Delois Witcher
Chateau Basque
Richland District Board of Trustees
Haworth-Lindgren
Lisa Haworth
Central Avenue Shafter
Congress
Alifornia
Frank W. and
Donalds. Reed
Miss Handel
Cooper
Kenneth Handel
Maudie Handel
Rick Cooper
H.B. Cooper
Methodist Church
Stockdale
Rick Cooper and
Kim Handel
Aptw
America
Philadelphia
FFVF
Church of
Shafter Missionary Baptist Church
Golden West
Church OF the Nazarene
W. Lordo J. Paul, Alexander
North Pine Street
Awana Roman
Roger Trautmann
Henry Harder
Jim Wiens
KWSO
Miller's
Mrs. Henry Miller
Elias Vela
DEP
Pentecostal Church OF God
S. Shafter Ave
Sun
James McDowell
E. Tulare Ave. Shafter
Owen C. Onsum
Church of God
So. Shafter
Shafter United Methodist Church
Seventh Day Adventist School
Riverside & Poplar
Charles P, Hamby
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Corner of Sunset
James Maynard Koerner
Richland Ave
Sam Hensley
First Assembly
Elm Street
John P. Davis
the Sun Shine
Now Christian
Mike McCutchan
Gary Hurley
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