Funeral services for Dec. 16
By The Bakersfield Californian
TO OUR READERS
The Californian provides free death listings using information supplied by local mortuaries. The in-depth notices that follow are paid obituaries and remembrances. These listings must be purchased by 2 p.m. To place an Obituary or In Loving Memory, call 395-7302. Full obituaries are posted at Bakersfield.com at 9 p.m. on the day before publication.
No services
Ruth Ellen DuPlain, 90, Shafter, Dec. 10 in Bakersfield. Neptune Society Cremation.
Services pending
Frank Acosta, 75, Bakersfield, Dec. 14. Greenlawn Mortuary.
Kevin Bergman, 58, Shafter, Dec. 14 in San Diego. Peters Funeral Home, Shafter.
Louis Kaufman, 75, Wasco, Dec. 15 in Delano. Peters Funeral Home, Wasco.
Barbara Jean Krafthefer, 90, Bakersfield, Dec. 14. Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara Funeral Directors.
Hortencia Lopez, 83, Bakersfield, Dec. 15. Greenlawn Mortuary.
Nelda Machado, 82, Santa Paula, Dec. 14. Basham Funeral Care.
Services scheduled
Josefina Barraza, 68, Bakersfield, Dec. 8. Visitation 6 to 10 p.m. with rosary at 7 p.m. Dec. 18, Basham Funeral Care. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Dec. 19 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Burial at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Basham Funeral Care.
Mary Linn Detrick, 80, Kernville, Dec. 12. Graveside service noon Dec. 18, Kern River Valley Cemetery. Sierra Valley Mortuary, Lake Isabella.
Timothy Roach, 86, Bakersfield, Dec. 13. Visitation 4 to 6 p.m. with rosary at 5 p.m. Dec. 18, Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Dec. 19 at St. Philip The Apostle Catholic Church. Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara Funeral Directors.
Virgil Paul Smith, 55, Bakersfield, Dec. 10. Funeral 10:45 a.m. Dec. 17 at Bakersfield National Cemetery. Mish Funeral Home.
John Steven Yankovich, 49, Bakersfield, Dec. 12. Memorial 4 p.m. Dec. 28 at Peters Funeral Home, Wasco. Peters Funeral Home, Wasco.
Most CommentedMost Popular
He’s Dr. Merle Haggard now. The bad-boy hero of the rebel strain of music that put Bakersfield on America’s cultural map half a century ago did something Friday he hadn’t done since he was 9: He sat still in school.
The family of David Silva announced Friday it has filed its long-expected federal civil rights claims against the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, six sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant, two California Highway Patrol officers, the county and the state alleging excessive police force killed him.
SACRAMENTO -- The California High-Speed Rail Authority won approval Thursday from a federal railroad oversight board to start construction this summer on the first leg of what would be the nation's first bullet train.
The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District Tuesday night unanimously approved a contract of employment to hire Kevin Silberberg as its new superintendent.
A Bakersfield attorney’s rocky marriage, marked by a divorce suit and a history of loud, public arguments, reportedly erupted into violence early Wednesday morning when police say he turned a gun on his wife and fired.
A woman found dead in a southeast Bakersfield garage Tuesday was identified Friday as 18-year-old Mia Ramirez of Bakersfield.
After a search that lasted much of Tuesday afternoon, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on suspicion of homicide in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body in a southeast Bakersfield garage.
An inmate condemned for the fatal 2007 beating of a 90-year-old Bakersfield woman died, June 2 of natural causes, Corcoran State Prison announced Monday.