The Corcoran Journal

The Corcoran Community Foundation is seeking to honor deceased members of the Corcoran community who have made great contributions to the City of Corcoran. The Corcoran Community Foundation Memorial Wall will be located to the north side of the Corcoran City Pool at the Recreation Association of Corcoran.
A committee has been formed and will be accepting applications until the Tuesday, November 15 deadline. Two individuals will be chosen annually and a plaque will mounted on the Memorial Wall during an unveiling ceremony in the spring of 2020.

Gloria Jean (Silacci) Bowman was born on June 5, 1929 in Cayucos, California and passed away on October 3, 2019 in Visalia, California.  

Graveside services were held October 2, 2019  at 11 a.m. at Corcoran District Cemetery for Lucille Goodlin who was born in Truman, Arkansas on April 10, 1929 to James Henry Galloway and Ida Samantha Frost Galloway.  

Joyce Marie Keeney went to join our Good Lord on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, she was surrounded by four of the five generations of her family at her side.  

Private services will be held for long time Corcoran resident John D. Houston, who died September 11. 

Esther Cervantes was born December 30, 1934 in Carlsbad, New Mexico to Jose Vicente Avitia and Josefa Herrera Avitia.  She passed away September 12, 2019 in Visalia with family by her side.

Born July 6, 1947 in Bakersfield CA. to Clyde Curtis Pemberton and Ella Josephine Pemberton. Clyde Pemberton passed away August 20, 2019 from a long battle with cancer for 8 years.  

A memorial service for Hazel Suzzetta (Javaux) Weathers, 70, was held Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. at the Corcoran Community Church of the Nazarene. Suzzetta died Aug. 30 at her home in So-Hi, Arizona.

Services were held September 7, 2019 in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church for Bertha Hernandez Franco, 67, who was born in Odessa, Texas on February 7, 1952 to Epifanio Hernandez and Manuela Alviera.  Bertha died August 29, 2019 in Hanford.