Community Breakfasts and School Plans Highlight Shafter News
The Shafter Press notes big breakfasts planned for Saturday at Memorial Hall to fund a $1700 gift for Shafter High School’s new electric scoreboard. It also lists school and community plans including teacher luncheons, thrift tours, and upcoming openings and appointments in local civic groups and the Mennonite Brethren Home for the Aged’s Gift Day events.
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Shafter High School
Shafter
Memorial Hall
Dorothy Gaede
Mennonite Brethren Home For the
Obituary: John Lee Donelson dies at 69 in Bakersfield
John Lee Donelson 69 died Sept 14 in Bakersfield after a short illness. Funeral Tuesday at Shafter Church of Christ with interment at Shafter Memorial Park. Born July 29, 1915 in Cockville Tennessee he married Juanita Campbell in 1937. He worked 32 years for Superior Oil retiring 1977. Survived by wife Juanita daughters Carolyn Wright Linda Caddel Janis Wann two brothers Benton Clayton Donelson sister Ovie Rogers four grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
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Shafter Church of Christ
John Lee _Donelson
Shafter
Bakersfield
Jim Collier
Paso Robles
Donelson
Superior Oil
Funeral services for LaVerne Knox in Shafter
LaVerne Knox 57 of Shafter died Sept 16 in a Bakersfield hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at Home with Rev. Larry Wooley officiating and burial at Shafter Memorial Park. Survived by seven sons Donald Hooper John Knox Ronnie Knox Bobby Knox Richard Knox Jerry Knox Nick Marshall. three daughters Patricia West Edith Hayden Linda Ringer. 25 grandchildren.
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LaVerne Knox
Shafter
Bakersfield
Larry Wooley
Missionary Baptist Church
Shafter Memorial Park
Knox
Childress
Texas
Robert & Emma Ward
Oklahoma
California
J.C. Knox
Carson City
Donald Hooper
John Knox
Wasco
Ronnie Knox
Bobby Knox
Richard Knox
Jerry Knox
Nick Marshall
Patricia West
Edith Hayden
Florida
Linda Ringer
Hypnotist to Perform at Kern County Fair October Dates
Terry Stokes, a hypnotist, will headline two shows nightly at the Great Kern County Fair October 3 4 and 5 on the Outdoor Theater Stage. He began in psychology and hypnotherapy and earned a doctorate from the Atlanta Hypnosis Institute before pursuing a stage career. The fair runs September 26 through October 7 with Stokes billed as a main attraction of mind illusion.
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Kern County Fair
Terry Stokes
Stokes
Atlanta
Stoke Snow
United States
Canada
Terry Stoxes
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