This week’s Grave of the Week is Silas Neill. Silas was born in 1917 in Missouri and passed in 2009 at age 91. Silas and his wife Edna moved to Exeter in 1941. He served in the Army Air Corp during World War II and upon discharge, returned to Exeter. He worked as a...
This week’s Grave of the Week is Claud Wiley of Farmersville. Born in Arkansas in 1925, he passed in 2010 at the age of 84. Mr. Wiley’s family moved to California in 1938, settling in Farmersville. He served in the US Navy during World War II. After discharge, he...
This week’s Grave of the Week is a personal one. Bertha Kirkendoll was born in 1912 in Shirley, Arkansas, and passed in 1999. She was my grandmother, Delcia Williams’, sister. I was born much later than my cousins and did not spend a lot of time with Aunt Bertha. I...
This week’s Grave of the Week is Grace Blessingpas. She was born in 1908 to Dutch immigrants. She came to Tulare County to work at the Mineral King Orchard. Her sister and brother-in-law worked at the orchard, and she was staying with them. Grace died at age 20 in the...
This Grave of the Week is a puzzle that needs solving. It has letters in pebbles with what appears to read G. Minatta
Jedediah Navarro passed away in a car crash April 20, 2015.
This week, we honor 15-year-old Michael Jones of Exeter.
In honor of those who served we remember our World War I veterans
In honor of election day, this week’s Grave of the Week is Kenny Guinn, former Governor of Nevada. Gov. Guinn was born in Arkansas in 1936. His parents moved the family to Exeter where he attended elementary and high school. He received an athletic scholarship to USC...
Floyd Brown and Roberta Gunn, married in 1934, made significant contributions to Exeter. Roberta was deeply involved in community programs and named Exeter Woman of the Year in 1981. Floyd served in the Army Air Force and managed the Exeter Irrigation District.
This week’s Grave of the Week is Carl Pescosolido. Skip, as he was known, was an East Coast transplant who fell in love with Exeter.
This week’s Grave of the Week is Kristine Bergman, who passed away in April at the age of 71. Kristine was born in Munich, Germany, and moved to the US at age 4. She grew up in Washington but moved to California to complete college. She also gave birth to her son...
This week’s Grave of the Week was a real Mr. Exeter, and he wasn’t even born here! Born and raised in Walnut Grove, Curtis Spott fell in love with Exeter on a trip to the Sequoias. He initially studied science and became an engineer, attending school at UC Berkeley,...
Honoring Daniel Garza, a veteran of the US Army, and employee of Foothills Community College, he is buried in Deep Creek Cemetery.
10 years ago today, a strong, brave young man lost his valiant battle with cancer. He was only a high school junior at the time of his passing, but he maintained his 4.0 GPA during his treatments and surgeries. Kyle Stutsman was born and raised in Exeter and has a...
This week’s Grave of the Week is Jose Guadalupe Salazar, or Lupe to his family and friends. He was born in Mexico and came to the US in 1947. In 1965, Lupe enlisted in the Marine Corps to serve his new home. He later transferred to the US Army reserves and remained a...
The purpose of Grave of the Week is to remember and share happy memories and times of those who have passed. All deaths are sad and regardless of age or circumstances, we all feel it is too soon to say goodbye to a loved one. We will all agree that the person featured...
This week’s Graves of the Week are Luke and Tammy Blankenship. Tammy Henley was born in Missouri in 1965 and grew up in Exeter and Visalia. Luke Blankenship was born in Kansas and grew up in Porterville. The two married in Exeter in in 1997. Tammy worked at Future...
This week’s Grave of the Week is a woman who died a hero. Angelica Haro died protecting her family at their home in Farmersville. Born on February 19, 1979, she passed on May 25, 2014. Angelica was a homemaker who loved her family and loved to dance. She always put...
This week’s Grave of the Week was a fixture of the Exeter community. Jack Elam was born, raised, and passed in Exeter. If something happened in Exeter, Jack was involved. In 1968, he took over the family business, Elam & Sons Painting, which is still in business...
This week’s Grave of the Week honors Ernest Joe Vian, Vietnam veteran, Naval air
This week’s Grave of the Week is Birtie and Carel Stalker a well-loved couple who were active in the Church of God. They were married 66 years.
In honor of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Week, Jeriome Robertson is this week’s Grave of the Week.
Christie Murehead is this week’s grave of the week. She was a mother of three, a loving wife, sister, daughter and grandmother.
World War II bomber pilot John Schultz helped the Exeter Lion’s Club by convincing them to hold a free fireworks display.
This week’s Grave of the Week is found in Hamilton Cemetery and is Eleanor Ann Groom. Eleanor was the daughter of a school principal and carried her family’s love of education with her into adulthood when she herself became a teacher after graduating from Indiana...
This week’s grave of the week is Roberto “Beto” Vazquez-Perez. Roberto was only 37 when he died in 2004. Roberto battled kidney problems since the age of 9. He had a kidney transplant which gave him 25 more years. However, he fought cancer three times before...
On June 28, 1943, Companies O and P of the 4th Marine Raider Battalion left Regi on the Western shore of New Georgia island headed for Viru Harbor. The goal was to secure Viru so that the Army could land two infantry companies in the Harbor. From there, they would...
This week’s Grave of the Week was a suggestion from Betty J Wolverton George. Stanley Morgan attended mortuary school before enlisting in the Marines Corps Reserve. His Marine pride can be seen on his gravestone. He spent most of his career in law enforcement working...
20 years ago, a 19-year-old man stepped out of his tent near Baghdad. He brushed his teeth and smiled at his friend. Later that day, his friend would be one of the first to arrive at the young man’s side after he was struck by shrapnel during a mortar attack. The...
The following names will appear on a plaque on the monument memorializing eight Exeter Union High School graduates who were killed in the Vietnam War. (chronological order, by date of death): Joe Lanell Meek - Class of 1964U.S. Amy, Specialist Fourth ClassKilled in...
This week’s Grave of the Week is not an individual but a compilation of a few of the many graves in the Exeter and Deep Creek cemeteries. Visiting these cemeteries you may have noticed marble logs and tree trunks throughout. The Woodmen of the World was founded on...
As a new way to promote and educate about the wonderful people who have shaped our community, every week a “Grave of the Week,” will be presented that will highlight a historically significant, or just an interesting, individual who graced us with their lives and...