Funeral services for Feb. 4, 2013
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
David F. Anguiano, 58, Fair Oaks, Jan. 30. Neptune Society Cremation.
Services pending
Charlotte Ashbrook, 88, Bakersfield, Feb. 2, Greenlawn River Boulevard.
Benjamin "Ben" Ayi Awuyah, 86, Accra, Ghana, Feb. 2. Beloved Care Funeral Services.
Alice Rankin Beard, 97, Walker Basin, Feb. 1. Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara.
Eva C. Calderon, 95, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Basham Funeral Care.
Robert Estrada, 72, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Basham Funeral Care.
Linda Lou Hargreaves, 75, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Greenlawn Southwest.
Lorenzo Iturriria, 77, Bakersfield, Feb. 3. Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara.
Jewel F. Kitchen, 88, Mariposa, Feb. 1. Geenlawn River Boulevard.
Carolyn Jean Lloyd, 69, Porterville, Feb. 1. Mission Family Mortuary.
Goldie H. McCarty, 93, Bakersfield Feb. 2. Greenlawn River Boulevard.
Gurmel Singh Pooni, 75, Bakersfield, Feb. 1. Greenlawn Southwest.
John Price, 85, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Rucker's Mortuary.
Maxine Carol Putnam, 68, Taft, Feb. 1. Erickson & Brown Funeral Home.
Daniel Ralph Ramirez, 63, Reedley, Jan. 30. Greenlawn River Boulevard.
Toby Simonson, 69, Bakersfield, Feb. 3. Greenlawn Southwest.
Trudi Tomlinson, 64, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Basham Funeral Care.
Services scheduled
Janis Darlene Fox, 74, Bakersfield, Jan. 27. Graveside service 1 p.m. Feb. 4, Hillcrest Memorial Park. Basham Funeral Care.
Virgil Lee Merriman, 87, Oildale, Feb. 2. Graveside services, 2 p.m. Feb. 8, Greenlawn River Boulevard. Greenlawn River Boulevard.
George Nordman, 82, Bakersfield, Jan. 31. Visitation and funeral service 10 a.m. Feb. 7, Chapel at Greenlawn River Boulevard. Greenlawn River Boulevard.
Nellie Rosalie Roman, 45, Bakersfield, Feb. 1. Services 6 p.m. Feb. 4, Word of Life Worship Center. Mission Family Mortuary.
Leon Smith, 73, Bakersfield, Feb. 2. Visitation 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., meditation 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 4, the Chapel of Rucker's Mortuary; funeral service 11 a.m. Feb. 5, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church; interment at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Rucker's Mortuary.
Forest J. Willard, 106, Templeton, Jan. 30. Graveside services 11 a.m. Feb. 6, Templeton Cemetery. Doughty-Calhoun-O'Meara Funeral Directors.






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