This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crow, Stephens, Wilcox, Collins, McAllister, Miller, Jackson, Hobbs Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7672 Message Board Post: CROW LESTER YOUNG born: 08/09/1895 M GEORGIA mother: STEPHENS died: KERN 02/07/1980 age: 84 yrs requested by: jcrowg@sbcglobal.net The Enterprise, Feb. 14, 1980 Pg. B4 (Serving Boron, California City, Edwards AFB, No. Edwards, Mojave, Rosamond and trade area.) Lester Y. Crow rites Conducted Funeral rites were held Saturday, Feb. 9 at the 1st Baptist Church in Bakersfield for Lester Y. Crow, 84, a long-time resident of Boron. Born in Homer, Georgia, August 9, 1895, Crow died Feb. 7 in his residence in Boron. Services were officiated by Rev. Clyde B. Skidmore, interment followed in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Bakersfield. Crow had been a barber for 50 years prior to his retirement. He also served his country in the U.S. Army during WWI. Crow was one of the 13 original founders of the First Southern Baptist Church in Bakersfield. Survivors include: his wife, Etta Mae; four daughters, Oreda Wilcox, Hospital Administrator for the boron Citizens Hospital, Roberta Collins of Hayward, CA, Dorsey McAllister of Santa Cruz, CA and Janice Miller of Jamesville, CA. Also surviving are two sisters, Inez Jackson of Madera, CA and Hattie Hobbs of Arkansas, a brother, Colonel Crow of Jackson, CA, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Arrangements were handled by Stickel Mortuary, Mojave. Sharon Kern Co. Volunteer