Shafter Memorial Park

GPS Coordinates: 35.472591, -119.235041
County: Kern
Record count: 8,684

Ownership: Kern County Cemetery District

Directions: Located inside Shafter city limits, along the western border, the cemetery lies on the east side of Santa Fe Way, at the intersection with Burbank St.

Background: Originally, the Shafter Cemetery was created as a private cemetery to meet the needs of both the Shafter and Wasco communities. It was started by the local mortician H.R. Janzen of Shafter in 1923 with its first burial being made on December 29, 1923.

In 1928, a local government agency, "Kern County Cemetery District", was created to take over the private cemetery, becoming the first public cemetery in Kern County to be formally created by vote of Shafter and the Wasco residents.

Burial Records

• Cemetery District Database, by Interment.net, September 3, 2019, (8,684 records)

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