Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....[Lemaster] Farris , Shirley "Lydia"  August 27, 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Farris, Shirley "Lydia"     
1921 - 2005 
 
Shirley (Lydia) Farris 
March 29, 1921 - August 27, 2005 

Shirley Lydia Farris, nee Lemaster, lost her hard fought battle with Emphysema 
on August 27, 2005. She was born on March 29, 1921, in Oil Center, California 
to Ruth and Roy Lemaster. Along with eight brothers and sisters, she grew up 
in and around Oil Center and Bakersfield and attended Aztec School, Fremont, 
Emerson and Kern County Union High School. In 1939, she married Harvey D. 
Farris. During WWII, she spent, as she always said, the most exciting and 
happiest times she yet experienced, working in the shipyards in Long Beach, 
California, where she made a lot of friends and enjoying what we now take for 
granted, freedom. She worked as a secretary at various businesses and Kern 
County Personnel Department and she took up bookkeeping, She retired from 
business in 1982 and volunteered her time at many charities. She especially 
loved spending time at Morro Bay with her great friend, Helen Kershberger. She 
is survived by her daughters, Kathy Farris, Celia Daddario and Jane OKane; her 
grandchildren, Nicole and Joseph Daddario, Jeff and Charlotte OKane; great-
grandchildren, Taryn, Hannah and Andrew OKane; sister and brothers, Barbara 
Chamberlin, Jack Lemaster and Dean Lemaster. She was preceded in death by her 
husband, Harvey, in 1986; sisters, Ellen and Myrtle and brothers, Wallace, 
Shorty (Francis) and Jim Lemaster. She will be greatly missed by her family 
and friends, but she will be in Gods hands and finally at peace. As per her 
instructions, no services will be held. Her ashes will be scattered over the 
ocean at Morro Bay, where she truly loved to be. 

Legacy.com


Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 8/30/2005.  


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