Family Mortuary Obituaries
SIMPSON FAMILY MORTUARY LICENSE REVOKED - Lasentinel
Saturday, June 10, 2017The State of California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau has revoked troubled Simpson Family Mortuary in Inglewood after 35 years of funeral and cremation service, effe...
Monday, April 03, 2017March 31, Basham Funeral Care Chapel; Interment to follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Basham Funeral Care.SERVICES PENDINGGenaro Mendez Aparicio, 60, Bakersfield, March 23. Mission Family Mortuary.Ralph D. Clarke, 72, Bakersfield, March 23. Basham Funeral Care.Jerry Dean Flores, 51, Bakersfield, March 23. Bakersfield Funeral Home.Wilfredo Santiago Francisco, Sr., 63, Delano, March 21. Delano Mortuary.Jacquelyn Sue Hannum, 66, Bakersfield, March 20. Doughty-Calhoun-O’Meara Funeral Directors.Brenda Sue Hill, 54, Bakersfield, March 11. Mission Family Mortuary.Redford Hutson, 82, Bakersfield, March 21 in Fresno, CA. Tinkler Funeral Chapel & Crematory.Albert Louis King, 30, Bakersfield, March 17. Jesse E. Cooley, Jr. Funeral Services.Richard F. Lemucchi, 94, Bakersfield, March 24. Greenlawn Funeral Home.George McGowan, 50, Bakersfield, March 23. Basham Funeral Care.Evelyn Richardson, 50, Bakersfield, March 24. Basham Funeral Care.Elvira Solorio, 79, Delano, March 23. Delano Mortuary.Jessic...
Monday, March 27, 2017Funeral Consumers Alliance, in the new report.Advertisement“Few consumers have the time or inclination to physically visit four or five funeral homes when a death has occurred in the family. And telephone disclosures are little better.”When families ask how much a funeral or a cremation will cost, Slocum wrote, “naturally, funeral homes have profit in mind and are likely to quote the consumer a price for their full-service offerings. They call this a ‘traditional’ funeral while failing to disclose that less expensive burial and cremation options are available.”In 2013, California enacted partial transparency reform, requiring funeral businesses to either post their entire general price list on their websites or to list 16 service items with a note that prices are available “on request.”California is the only state to mandate any online requirement, Slocum said. So if a relative dies out of state, Californians could be hard-pressed to comparison shop.The Funeral Consumers Alliance has affiliates in 46 states. In November 2015, the Southern California chapter mapped funeral homes in Los Angeles County, including the South Bay, comparing prices for direct cremation, immediate burial and a full funeral service. The survey found vast disparities.Transparency among independentsKirk believes consumers should be encouraged to check the websites of funeral homes.Often, they tend to go with a mortuary that is close to home, he said,but that’s changing, partly because of the internet.“People certainly today do a lot more comparison shopping than they used to and it’s probably good that they do,” Kirk said.He acknowledged that, like any other industry, varying prices for the same services can be attributable to quality.“There might be a valid reason for there to be a dramatic difference for price in companies,” Kirk said. “Some might provide significantly higher service levels than others.”White & Day Mortuaries, for example, offers the use of reception facilities for no additional charge, he said.For Tim Lambert, manager of A.M. Gamby Mortuary in Lomita, listing prices online isn’t just a matter of transparency, but convenience.“It’s easier, just showing the people what it is,” Lambert said. “If they’re calling you up, you can say it’s online, print yourself a copy.”Locally owned independents are most likely to post prices, according to the consumer groups’ report, which offered data on 138 businesses in nine regions nationwide, including Orange County, building on its 2015 survey.Locally, just four of 15 mortuaries in the South Bay and Harbor Area do not have general price lists on their websites. Green Hills Mortuary in Rancho Palos Verdes, Exquisite Family Mortuary in Inglewood, Funeraria Del Angel in Wilmington and H...
Monday, March 13, 2017Longview, Washington. She was born at home in Svensen, Oregon to her Finnish immigrant parents Jack and Helmi (Frans) Aho on April 22, 1926 and was the last remaining sibling in a family of ten children. She graduated from Knappa High School with the Class of 1944 and after graduation, was employed as a housekeeper for an Astoria family. She later worked for the Bumble Bee Cannery. Ellen soon met the man she was destined to marry...
Monday, March 06, 2017Funeral Home.Helen Lopez, 95, Bakersfield, Feb. 20. Rucker’s Mortuary.Sergio Landin Molina, 52, Delano, Feb. 20. Glenwood Funeral Home.Richard Gene Quiring, 73, Bakersfield, Feb. 23. Mission Family Mortuary.Evelyn Robert, 92, Bakersfield, Feb. 24. Rucker’s Mortuary.Barbara A. Root, 58, Bakersfield, Feb. 26. Kern River Family Mortuary.Joseph Graham Tautkus, 60, Tehachapi, Feb. 14. Bakersfield Funeral Home.Ples McDonald Taylor IV, 47, Bakersfield, Feb. 23. Greenlawn Funeral Home.Chibiko Godwin Onyeukwu, 80, Bakersfield, Feb. 22. Greenlawn Funeral Home Southwest.Sam H. Owen, 75, Bakersfield, Feb. 27. Basham Funeral Care.Seward Keith Spurlock, 72, Bakersfield, Feb. 19. Mission Family Mortuary.John Straub, 74, Bakersfield, Feb. 23. Basham Funeral Care.Tejinder Singh Takhar, 69, Bakersfield, Feb. 24. Greenlawn Funeral Home Southwest.Napolion Gamez Zapata, 65, Bakersfield, Feb. 27. Basham Funeral Care.NO SERVICESBryan Timothy Lee, 38, Bakersfield, Feb. 18. Doughty-Calhoun-O’Meara Funeral Directors.Nobu Torii, 96, Bakersfield, Feb. 25. Neptune Society Cremation.TO OUR READERSThe Californian provides free death listings supplied by local mortuaries. To place an Obituary or In Loving Memory, call 395-7302. They will be posted at Bakersfield.com at 9 p.m. on the day before publication.
