Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Firkins , Celia "Sally"      July 26, 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Firkins, Celia "Sally"     
1920 - 2005 
 
Celia (Sally) Firkins 
11/26/1920 - 7/26/2005 

Funeral services will be conducted for Sally Firkins, age 84, on Saturday, 
July 30, 2005, at the First Southern Baptist Church in Shafter, at 9:00 a.m. 
Graveside will follow at Shafter Memorial Park. Pastor Jim Williams of the 
First Southern Baptist Church will officiate. Visitation will be held on 
Thursday, July 28, from 2-8 p.m. and Friday, July 29, from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. at 
Peters Funeral Home. Sally was born in Ajo, Arizona on November 26, 1920. She 
married Chuck Firkins on April 9, 1939, in Los Angeles, CA. They moved to 
their current home in Shafter in 1946, and had their 4 children. She worked at 
Stringhams Drug Store for 20 years. After Sally and Chuck retired they enjoyed 
traveling, camping, fishing and spending lots of fun times with family and 
friends. Sally leaves behind her husband, Chuck; brother, Bobby Cruz; sisters, 
Norma Anderson and Irma McMachin; children and their spouses, Sally and Bob 
Holmes, Betty and Dean Fraley, Donald and Jeanie Firkins, Tom and Barbara 
Firkins; grandchildren, Steven Holmes, Teri Swan, Kelly Gregory, Derek Fraley, 
Kevin Firkins, Dawn Firkins, Jeff Firkins, Melanie Ponce; and 13 great-
grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. 

Peters Funeral Home-Shafter 
Legacy.com

Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 7/28/2005. 


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