Grand Council Ceremony for Camp Fire Girls at Rich Primary
Mrs. Lawrence Schellenberg presented honors at the Grand Council Fire Monday evening. About 198 Camp Fire Girls and 38 Horizon club members attended, with six ten year charms awarded to Kathy Albright and others. Multiple groups and sponsors within Shafter were noted, with Torch Bearer and Firemaker ranks announced and Wohelo medallion awarded to Colleen Diltz. Tracy Thompson led the procession as girls marched in, and candles were extinguished after the salutes and songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Schellenberg
Camp Fire
Grand Council
Kathy Albright
Coleen Diltz
Jeannie Guenther
Sharon Smith
Sharon Stockton
Janet Wiedmann
Horizon Club
American Legion
Clayton Hutchings
Belva Condit
Sharon Fultz
Kathy Hutchings
Nelda Patterson
Lauretta Schellenberg
Kathy Scott
Becky Templeton
Jennifer Weidenbach
Lawrence Kattenhorn
George Cooper
Delta Theta Tau Sorority
Art Penner
Frank Martens
Women’s Fellowship
The
Congregational Church
Stella Arthington
Shafter Woman’s Club
Arthington
Shafter Rotary Club
Kathy Richards
Shafter Junior Women
Jack McMeans
Guardian
Ray Wiley
Phil Zachary
Lyle Carter
Wish Ka Ca
John Lucas
Glenn Irish
Shafter Lions Club
Tracy Thompson
Rhonda Feil
James William Fowler Funeral Rites Held In Bakersfield
Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p m in the Pentecostal Church of God for James William Fowler 89 of 191 Stone Ave who died Thursday at Bakersfield hospital Rev H A Thomas officiated and burial was in Shafter Memorial Park He was born July 11 1878 in McDade Texas and lived in Texas Oklahoma before moving to Shafter in 1934 Survivors include his wife four sons two daughters a brother a sister eight grandsons ten granddaughters and 22 great grandchildren He previously worked as a night watchman at local piers and sheds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Jackson McCormack
Robert L. Jones
Wasco
Allen
Mr. McCormack
Elie Mountain
Arkansas
Badger Street
Lost Hills
McCormack
Belridge Oil Company
Lener Burchett
Blue Mountain
Richard Charles
Shafter
Cecil Jackson McCormack
Gridley
Emmet H. Martin
Juanita Romine
Thurs Knott
Oklahoma
Lester
Charlie McCormack
Grainger
Georgia
Wasco Memorial Cemetery
Kenneth
Wayne
James McCormack
Gary
Leon
Jimmy Romine
James William Fowler
Jessie
John
Bakersfield
Roy
Calvin
Ray
Glendora
Ellen Corbin
Jewel Cunningham Shafter
Texas
Lucille
Chicago
Fowler
Hhearers
Ralph Colne Cork Poe Samton
Oe Day
Bill Hasrook
Special Report for Seventh-day Adventist Members
Roy Kenneth Pitts announces a special report for Shafter church members at 9 45 a m at West Lerdo and Poplar. The session explains how a December 1965 offering funded a new school and hospital in the Bismark Solomons Islands during World War II memories. Evelyn Toews will present the Saturday morning report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaita
Seventh-day Adventist Church
West Lerdo and
Poplar
Roy Kenneth Pitts
Poplar Ave
Bismark-Solomons Islands
Pacific
Evelyn Toews
Riverside Ave
Family Reunites as Gladden Siblings Gather in Honor
The Gladden family of Shafter gathers for a nine year reunion at Rose Hills memorial park as Loma Mehan, Billy Gladden’s sister, is laid to rest in Bell Gardens. Survivors include her husband James and children Louise Puckett James Leroy and Leo with six grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Gladden
Billy
J. E
Loma) Mehan
Bell Gardens
W.P. Gladden
Tryon
Okla
Cecil
Rogers
Ark
Otis
Bobby
Klamath Falls
Ore
Troy
Muskogee
Shafter
Harold Eyestone
Clara
Chandler
Harley
Myrtle) Kapelle
Richland
Wash
George
Stillwater
Mehan
Rose Hill Memorial Chapel
Rose Hills Memorial Park
Whittier
James
Louise Puckett
Downey
James Leroy
Bellflower
Leo
Sacramento
Adventist Mission Work Rebuilt After War Damages
The notice describes World War II fighting on Guadalcanal, then a Seventh-day Adventist mission school built in 1945 from salvaged quonset buildings. By 1965 heat and humidity left ruins, later funds from new Adventist offerings funded a modern 70 bed hospital and improved education, with missionary Brian Dunn fatally stabbed during construction. A public works bid notice follows for school supplies and a Kern County airport project with detailed wage schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dacanal
Pitts
Guadalcanal
Shafter Adventists
Malaita
South Pacific
Uru
Brian Dunn
Toews
Bismarck- Solomon Islands
Ocal Adventist Ch Mfs
Board of Supervisors
County of Kern
Shafter Airport
Bakersfield
California
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J.C. Penner
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Frank Russell
Mig. Co
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