Obituaries

Jan 29, 2022

Melvin Roy (Mel) Waldrop passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at his Bakersfield home on January 29, 2022 at the age of 72.

 

Mel was born in Bakersfield on September 28, 1949 to Roy (Dick) and Bonell Waldrop. He was the second of three children.  Mel grew up in the Delano/Earlimart area of Kern County where he...

Jan 27, 2022

Ellen Bilman passed away peacefully at home in Bakersfield, California surrounded by her loving family.  She was 88 years old; born July 1933 in Lexington, Kentucky.  Loved and predeceased by her 93-year-old father Frank C. Byers in 1998, her 92-year-old mother Dorothy Byers in 2003, and her younger sister Christine Byers in 2011.

 

Ellen had always enjoyed singing...

Jan 25, 2022

Jan 25, 2022

Affectionately known as Ro or Pa by family and friends, Romaine was born on March 3, 1933 in Visalia, California to Paul and Leda Cote, and was the youngest of thirteen children. Romaine graduated from Visalia High School in 1951 and attended College of the Sequoias on a Building Trade Scholarship.  Upon graduation he was drafted into the United States...

Jan 22, 2022

Jess Andrew Miranda passed away on Saturday, January 22, 2022. He was 73 years old. Jess was born on November 15, 1948 in Bakersfield, California to Margaret “Peggy” Barron and Jesus R. Miranda. Jess was a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corp. Serving his country during the Vietnam War. After his military career he spent thirty years as...

Jan 20, 2022

Evelyn was born a farmer’s daughter and was destined to be a farmer’s wife.  She was born January 11, 1929 at the home of her parents, Jack and Hilda Rossi, in Old River. And except for a short time in the Fairfax area, she never left Old River. She grew up on her parents’ small dairy and farm and she...

Jan 14, 2022

A private service will be held at a later date at Bakersfield National Cemetery.

Jan 12, 2022

Candess Margaret Strategos

11/02/1946 – 01/12/2022 Candess was born on November, 2nd 1946 in Memphis Tennessee to Sidney and Margaret Bailey and grew up in Benton Harbor Michigan. On July 31st 1966 she married her husband of 55 years James Strategos, of Los Angeles California, at the Greek Orthodox church in her home town in Michigan. They made their life...

Jan 11, 2022

DON SUVERKROP: APRIL 14, 1925 to January 11, 2022

The journey of a creative engineer began when Don Suverkrop would accompany his father, Lew Suverkrop on trips to his oil lease near Taft, California. There he would learn from Lew, all about the mechanical aspects of drilling rigs of the 1930s Kern Oilfields. From this, he developed an interest in...

Jan 10, 2022

Lawrence Keith Haycock was born February 7, 1946 in Lake County, California to Donald and Minnie Haycock. He is survived by his daughter Katie, and his brothers and sisters: Tom, Georgia, Raymond and Mary. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. 

Keith grew up on a farm outside of Mettler, California. He graduated...

Jan 6, 2022

Devoted Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Educator

Betty Ann Spencer passed away peacefully at home on January 6th surrounded by her loving family. She was 82 years old. Born in Arvin on April 19, 1939, she was the oldest of four children. Betty eventually moved to Bakersfield with her parents where she grew up playing the organ and piano in church....

Jan 5, 2022

DOROTHY CAROL RAINEY

(June 23, 1928 – January 5, 2022)Dorothy “Sally” Carol Rainey passed away on January 5, 2022 in Bakersfield, CA. She was 93years old.Sally was the third-generation matriarch of the pioneer Burke family in Kern County. She grewup on the Standard Oil Lease and graduated from Kern County Union High School in 1946. Sallycompleted her education at UC Berkeley,...

Dec 27, 2021

Rudolph (Rudy) Edward Banducci was born and raised alongside his eight siblings in the Old River area. He graduated from Bakersfield High School and began farming with a bit of truck driving in there. too, where he made many lifelong friends.

Rudy served on the board for the Lakeside School District. He loved going to the casino and the Reno Air...

Dec 21, 2021

Carl Ray Wren was born near Stigler, Oklahoma on his parent’s farm on July 11th 1944.His parents were Lloyd and Myrtle Duvall Wren. When Carl was born his brother had to run to the neighbor’s house for help when his mother was in labor. The neighbors came to help with the delivery. Their names were Carl and his wife Rae...

Dec 15, 2021

Dec 15, 2021

Mayie Maitia born May 8, 1929 in Saint Étienne de Baïgorry, France died December 15, 2021 in Bakersfield, California at age 92. She is preceded in death by her husband J.B. Maitia, son Daniel Maitia, parents Jean and Marie Etchebarne, sisters Angele Ansolabehere and Amelie Bidart, brothers Jean Leon, Jean Baptiste, Jean, Michel and Pierre Etchebarne, many brother and sister-in-laws,...

Dec 12, 2021

Ronald went home to be with our Lord on Sunday, December 12, 2021 after his battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Ron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Victor and Silvia W. Mowry on April 29,1945. Ron entered the United States Airforce at 19 and he served for four years as an accounting specialist in Korea and Hawaii. He joined the...

Dec 6, 2021

Mary Linda Fernandez, 70, Bakersfield California , passed away on 12/6/21.

Mary was born August 19th, 1951 in Rural Inglewood, California. She graduated from Inglewood High School and later received a nursing degree from Bakersfield Community College, eventually becoming a Registered Nurse.

Mary loved her children and grandchildren dearly. She was a free spirit who lived life to the fullest. She...

Dec 6, 2021

Michael Dewayne Fowler (64) was born on January 11, 1957 to Charles Dewayne and Frankie Louise Fowler in Bakersfield, California. On December 6, 2021, he passed away while surrounded by his wife and children after a battle with lung cancer.

He is survived and remembered with fondness by his wife Debbie, their children; Cole (Melissa) and Carlie, their grand-daughter Lily,...

Dec 2, 2021

Andrea Louise Turnipseed passed away peacefully in Salinas, California on December 2, 2021 from a non-Covid related illness. She was born on September 18, 1962 in Bakersfield, California to Anna and Wayne Turnipseed. Andrea grew up on the family farm in Earlimart and attended local schools. She graduated from Delano High School in 1980 and then CSU Long Beach in...