This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holt, Bryant, Clark, Lynch, Cross, Bess, Adkins, Gargill, Wurster, Dornton Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JW.2ADE/7959 Message Board Post: HOLT EVA E born: 02/06/1885 F VIRGINIA mother: BRYANT died: KERN 04/10/1966 age: 81 yrs Requested by: praxlis@bellsouth.net The Bakersfield Californian, Tuesday, April 12, 1966 Pg. 36 ~OBITUARY NOTICES~ HOLT, Eva Elvira - Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Mish Funeral Home, Oildale for Eva Elvira Holt, 81, of 1111 Woodrow Avenue, who died Sunday in her home. The rev. Olin G. Collier, pastor of the Riverview Baptist Church, will officiate and interment will follow in Union cemetery. Mrs. Holt was born Feb. 6, 1885, in Virginia and had lived in this community 50 years. She had been a homemaker 61 years and was active in community affairs. Survivors include her widower, Thomas M.; two sons, Howard R. Clark of Long Beach and Ralph F. Clark of San Jose; six daughters, Mrs. Lola V. Lynch and Eunice E. Cross of Oildale, Mrs. Opal Bess of Taft, Mrs. Myrtle Adkins of Bakersfield, Mrs. Nobedia Gargill and Mrs. Mary Lee Wurster, both of Sacramento; a brother, Bill Dornton, and a sister, Zaidia Bryant, both of Oklahoma; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jim Yorga, George Hickernell, J. T. Adikns, Floyd Petty, Howard Cross and! Roy Lynch. Sharon Kern Co. Volunteer