Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Padilla, Emelia March 2, 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Emelia Padilla
(Cottengim)
July 22, 1967 - March 2, 2005 

Rosary services will be held Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the Great Room at Mission 
Family Mortuary, 531 California Ave. & S Street, with a Mass of Christian 
Burial being said Saturday at 9:00 a.m. in St. Clemente Catholic Church, 1305 
Water Street for Emelia Padilla Cottengim, 37, who died March 2, 2005. Fr. 
Ralph Belluomini will be the celebrant and cremation will follow.

She was born in Bakersfield to Arthur and Ophelia Padilla. Despite suffering a 
coma as an infant, she attended local schools and graduated from East 
Bakersfield High School in 1985. Emelia participated in programs through Kern 
Regional Center and BARC. In 1981 she was picked by the Shriners Club to be 
the Potato Bowl Queen. She loved to read novels, listen to country music and 
was a wrestling fanatic. She was especially noted for striking up 
conversations with everyone who would lend her an ear. She was a very genuine 
person and would not hesitate to give her honest opinion. Emelia will be 
remembered by those she knew and loved for her frequent phone calls and her 
hearty laugh. Her calls will be greatly missed by all of us.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Ophelia Padilla. She is survived by 
her estranged husband, Paul Cottengim; her father, Arthur Padilla; sisters, 
Denise, Mary Lou and Regina Padilla; nephews, Armando Gomez and Roberto 
Vazquez and niece, Victoria Vazquez, all of Bakersfield, CA; several aunts, 
uncles and cousins and a special uncle, Robert Padilla, who she especially 
loved in his rabbit suit.

Visitations will be from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in 
the Mission Family Mortuary.

Casketbearers will be Armondo Gomez, Roberto Vazquez, Victoria Vazquez, Louis 
Padilla Jr., Thomas Herrera Jr., and Kathy Gonzales.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Padilla 
family in care of Mission Family Mortuary.

Mission Family Mortuary 


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