Obit of Harkey, Fred - Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

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::Hillcrest Memorial Park--Bakersfield CA

The Bakersfield Californian 18 March 2004

Fred Harkey "Tex"

Services:  Thurs., Mar. 18, 2 p.m.

Tex was born on February 15, 1917, in Ada, Oklahoma.  After serving 
his country in WW II, he spent many years in New Mexico, farming and 
leading country and western dance bands in and around west Texas and 
eastern New Mexico.

He and his family moved to Bakersfield in 1964 and he worked at 
Foothill High School as a groundskeeper until he retired in 1979.  
Upon retirement he and his wife, Peggy, moved to Stallion Springs 
until 1999, when they returned to Bakersfield.  He lost his living 
wife of 62 years in October of 2000.

Tex is survived by his four sons and their wives, Fred and Jan, Leon 
and Becky, Roger and Jackie, Dan and Ernestine; 10 grandchildren and 
7 great grandchildren.

Services will be held Thursday, March 18, 2:00 p.m., at Hillcrest 
Memorial Chapel.

www.dignitymemorial.com

HILLCREST Memorial Park & Mortuary
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