Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Macewich, Felix Joseph March 13, 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Felix Joseph Macewich
Nov. 24, 1918 - Mar. 13, 2005

Services: Fri., Mar. 18, 11 a.m. 

A memorial service will be held Friday, March 18, 2005, at Hillcrest Memorial 
Park & Mortuary.

Felix Joseph Macewich, beloved husband, father and grandfather passed away on 
March 13, 2005. He was born November 24, 1918, in the White Mountains of 
Lincoln, New Hampshire. His parents ran a boarding house for the loggers who 
worked the paper mill. At age thirteen, his family moved to Portsmouth where 
they owned and operated a large dairy farm. In 1941, at age 22, Phil joined 
the Navy where he met and married his wife, Lois, a year later. He served five 
years on a naval ship and was based in the Philippines and Sidney, Australia. 
After the bombing of Pear Harbor, Phil was brought in to do the underwater 
welding repairing the damaged battleships. Honorably discharged in 1946, he 
went home to work the dairy and decided to look for work in California. 
Landing a job (with only six dollars in his pocket) he began work in 1947 for 
Mobil Oil. Living in Taft and working the next 36 years for Mobil, he retired 
as a welder at age 65 in 1983. For the next twelve years, he and his wife, 
Lois traveled in their fifth-wheel about the country from Alaska to Mexico. 
Throughout his life he enjoyed raising birds, deer hunting by horseback in the 
high country, fishing, traveling and many other hobbies. His biggest 
accomplishment besides helping raise four daughters was building a home on 
Greenhorn Mountain east of Bakersfield. Buying and spending many weekends 
tearing down the old McKittrick Cook House, along with two old lease houses 
that he purchased, at age 45, he began using the lumber to build. Spending 
almost every weekend for the next 10 years he built a magnificent mountain 
home for his family to enjoy and get away from the summers heat of Taft. Never 
an ending job, he continued laying out beautiful rock walls around the 
property among the trees.

Phil is preceded in death by his wife, Lois of 58 years, a son, John Stanley 
Macewich. Survived by daughters, Carol-Sweaney and husband, Max Carpenter of 
Missouri, Phyllis Nunes of Taft, Mary Jo and husband, Larry Joyner of the Lake 
Isabella area, Janet and husband, Rick Hawkins of Taft; five grandchildren, 
Roger and wife, Melissa Sweaney of Wisconsin, Kiah and husband, Steven Pues of 
Lake Isabella area, Kadiah Bauer of Taft, Landon and Dallas Joyner of the Lake 
Isabella area, along with five great-grandchildren.

He will be greatly missed 


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