Kern County Obituaries

Donald Archer

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 7 Sep 1950

Accident Claims Lives of Three
Sudden death claimed three members of a wedding party en route to Las Vegas 
early Monday morning, when the car in which they were riding failed to 
negotiate a curve and rolled over. Fatally injured were Gerald R. Barneke, 
26, Constable of Buttonwillow, Calif., Donald Archer, 24 of Bakersfield, 
fire engineer, K Co. Fire Dept., Minter Field, and William E. Foster, 21, 
Deputy Constable of Buttonwillow. Injured was Miss Rose Marie Kanapik of 
Bakersfield who was to have wed Mr. Foster.

The accident occurred about 11 miles west of Mojave near the Cameron junction. 
The O'Donnell ambulance took Mr. Foster and Miss Kanapik to the Tehachapi 
hospital, where the young man succumbed. Miss Spanik was released and taken 
to her home in Bakersfield on Wednesday.
 
Services for Donald Archer will be held at the Hopson Mortuary in Bakersfield 
on Thursday morning at 10:30. Wm. E. Foster's services will take place at the 
Payne and Son Funeral Home, Bakersfield, at 2:30 p.m., Thursday. Both men will
be buried in the' Union City Cemetery.

O'Donnell Funeral Home will conduct services for Gerald Barneke at the Payne 
and Son Funeral Home, Bakersfield, at 1 p.m. Thursday, and the body will be 
shipped to Albuquerque, N. M for burial.