This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dorton, Collins, Hawley, Bryant, Goesling, Dimitroff, Ferguson, Carroll, Millard Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JW.2ADE/7961 Message Board Post: DORTON ALTHA B born: 07/24/1905 F TEXAS died: KERN 07/11/1972 age: 66 yrs Requested by: praxlis@bellsouth.net The Bakersfield Californian, Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Pg. 45 ~OBITUARIES~ DORTON, Altha Bertie - Services will be held in the Greenlawn Chapel Thursday at 10 a.m. for Altha Bertie Dorton, 66, 421 Bryant Street, who died July 11 at home. The Rev. Arnold Niemeyer Sr. and the Rev. Burton Gillispie will officiate and interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Mrs. Dorton, a native of Texas, had resided in California 37 years and in Kern County 35 years. She was a member of First Pentecostal Church of God. Survivors include 3 sons, Johnnie, Rejis and Leonard, all of Bakersfield; 2 daughters, Velma Collins of Bakersfield and Patsy Hawley of Castaic; 3 brothers, Sherman Bryant of Washington, Bill and Gene Bryant of Fremont; 5 sisters, Mildred Goesling of Oildale, Thelma Dimitroff of New Mexico, Edith Ferguson of Napa, Marie Carroll of Vallejo and Neoma Millard of Glendora; 14 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Alfred rush, Regis Rush, William Barter, Bobby Hawley Jr., Joe Goesling and Lynn Hawley. Honorary bearers will b! e Gerald Collins, Bernard Winters and Lynn Huckaby. Sharon Kern Co. Volunteer