Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....(Durham) Killingsworth, Dora Mell  October 16 2004
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The Tehachapi News 
Dora Mell Killingsworth

Dec. 8, 1919 – Oct. 16, 2004

Graveside funeral services were held on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at the Tehachapi 
Public Cemetery - Eastside for Dora Mell Killingsworth, 84, who passed away in 
Bakersfield on Oct. 16.

Dora was born on Dec. 8, 1919, in Chillicothe, Texas to Phillip and Edna 
Durham. She was married to Marion Killingsworth on Oct. 20, 1937, in Quanah, 
Texas. They moved to Tehachapi in 1949, where she was employed by Tehachapi 
Cleaners for six years. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church 
of Tehachapi from 1952 to 1998, when she and her husband moved to Bakersfield 
to live with their daughter.

Dora will be remembered as a peacemaker, Sunday School teacher and an avid 
quilter. She was a “Godly” example of a wife, mother, grandmother and friend.

Dora will be missed by many left behind, but received and welcomed in heaven 
by her husband of 65 years, Marion; 2 sons, Woodrow and Gerald; and two great-
grandchildren, Kirsten and Timothy; a brother; and six sisters.

Dora is survived by her daughter Paula Bozarth and husband Jim; grandchildren 
Kevin Bozarth and wife Jeri, Kyle Bozarth and wife Alisha, Greg Killingsworth 
and wife Noelle, and DeLynn Killingsworth; 10 great-grandchildren, all of 
Bakersfield; sister Alice Howes of Hatch, N.M.; and numerous nieces and 
nephews.

Brother Jack Lee officiated at the service. Wood Family Funeral Service 
handled the arrangements.


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