Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Powell Penny Arp, Opal Nadine  September 3 2004
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Opal Nadine Powell Penny Arp
Oct. 19, 1911 Sept. 3, 2004

Opal was born on Oct. 19, 1911, in Grandview, MO, to George and Sylvia Powell 
and died of congestive heart failure at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital on 
Friday. She was 92. 

She married Earl Penny, Sr. on July 4, 1936. During the war years, she built 
B25 bombers at North American Aviation in Kansas City and later moved to 
Bakersfield in 1951. As a young girl, she became interested in quilting and 
began playing the piano at age 9. She was a local church organist for over 50 
years and worked for the Bakersfield City School District until 1972. Earl 
Penny died in 1972 and in 1973, she married James Addison Arp, a local builder 
whose father built the first Bakersfield Californian building on Eye St. 
during the early 1900s. She collected antique furniture, dishes, sheet music, 
jewelry, and loved cats.. She was a member of the Republican Party, 
Bakersfield Womans Club, Symphony Associates and the Kern County Chapter of 
the American Guild of Organists. She will be greatly missed.

Her ancestors include Joeb Powell, a traveling circuit writer preacher in 
Oregon during the 1860s and John Powell, the first head of the U.S. Geological 
Survey in charge of all U.S. land grants west of the Rocky Mountains; Lake 
Powell is named after him. 

She is survived by three sisters, Garnet Westoff of Overland Park, KS, LaVaun 
Fletcher of Grandview, MO, and Georgia Madison of Edgewater, NJ; sons, Earl 
Penny and wife, June of Lakeside, CA, and Eldon Penny of Bakersfield, CA; 
grandchildren, Kristen Daniel of Santee, CA and Davey Dawson of El Cajon, CA; 
and great-great-grandchild, Jordan Daniel of Santee, CA.

The memorial service will be held at St. Pauls Episcopal Church on Friday, 
September 10, 2004 at 10:30 a.m. Internment will be at Hillcrest Cemetery. If 
you wish to make donations, please send them to the Kern County Chapter of the 
American Guild of Organists, c/o Sue Wagner, 2216 17th St., Bakersfield, CA 
93301. 


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