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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1986
Page
7
A personal note from Sandy Armstrong celebrating Nathan turning one, comparing siblings' growth, and noting parental challenges. The piece links family milestones to broader issues, urging support for California SB 7 parents rights bill, with contact details for Don Rogers. Easter thoughts and dye tips round out the message, ending with Sandy's address and phone number.
A Wasco Mennonite Brethren Church youth group from Wasco travels with three Bakersfield groups to Magdalena Mexico for a week long Bible school and cultural activities. They will sleep on floors camp and cook their own meals with interpreters aiding Spanish Bible verses and testimonies.
Nicholas Kavathas aged 49 died Friday in a Bakersfield hospital. Graveside services were held in Bakersfield on Tuesday March 25. He was born in Santa Ana and educated at Bakersfield High School Arlington Texas Junior College and Texas Wesleyan College. He owned a catering and printing business and previously worked as advertising manager for Reed Print Inc and local newspapers. He is survived by his wife Carol Ann two sons Cheryl Kay Kavathas a brother and three sisters plus five grandchildren and many relatives.
Charles Homer Richardson known as Charlie died March 5 in Bakersfield at age 93. He was born March 1 1893 in Webb City Missouri to Doc and Alice Richardson and moved to Shafter in 1948. Survived by Jeff and Geneva Richardson Jess and Jessiee Ricketts Lenora Clarida Henry Richardson twenty grandchildren and thirty two great grandchildren. Public service Monday March 10 at 2 pm at Shafter Memorial Park with Pastor Vernon Gilley officiating.
Funeral services for Lillie Marie Nixon aged 73 were held March 22 at 10 a.m. in Agee Funeral Chapel Bakersfield. She died March 19 in Bakersfield after a life spanning Oklahoma and Texas to Shafter where she lived since 1934. Survived by two sons Bob and Jack Nixon six grandchildren and one brother. Her husband Curtis preceded her in death in 1983. She was a homemaker and member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Shafter.
Dr Adolf Ingram Frantz died March 18 in Bakersfield at 91. Services Friday at 2 p m at Mennonite Brethren Church with Rev Lyle Cunningham officiating. Interment at Shafter. Born March 20 1884 in Durham Kansas to John and Elizabeth Frantz. Educated on farm then Tabor Academy Hillsboro Kansas. B A 1913. Masters Stanford. Ph D Yale. Married Helen Rogalsky June 17 1917 in McPherson Kansas.
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