This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Notable Local Deaths and Family Remains Highlight Life
Obituaries recall Alene Velma Rohrbach family life across Shafter Cuyama Earlimart and Porterville with husband Bill and ten grandchildren. Also remembered are Pete Rutledge pastor in Bakersfield Salinas Shafter and Rexland Acres whose marriages and ministry spanned decades. Infant Jose Emmanuel Prado burial noted with Mexican grandparents and siblings.
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California
Irvin
Bill) Rohrbach
Shafter
Cuyama
Earlimart
Porterville
Alene
Bill
LeRoy
Donna Rohrbach
Joan Crow
Ken
Sheila Rohrbach
Lovely O’ Brian
Buster) Houston
Chero- Bobbie G. Fink
Doyle Houston
Paragould
Arkansas
Charles and
Alvie Rutledge
Bakersfield
Kern County Union High School
Army Air Corp
Austin
Texas
Pete
Sadie Weir
Southern Baptist Church
Decatur
Salinas
First Southern Church
Sadie
Anita Long
Rexland Acres