Kern County Obituaries

Paul Borgfeld 

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Paul Borgfeld was born in Los Angeles, California at Queen of Angels Hospital 
on August 28, 1908. He lived in Los Angeles with his mother and brother Carl. 
He attended Manual Arts High School where he was on the track team. He was most 
proud of being on the relay team when they won the world's record for four-man 
relay. He was known as "Shrimp" by his team mates as he had been double promoted 
and was not only small but several years their junior.
He worked his way through high school and USC doing windows, and working on the 
linotype machine setting types for the paper. Boy, was he a proof-reader! His 
first teaching job was in Needles, California. There he met his future wife Inez.
Paul eventually worked for the Board of Education of Long Beach, California as 
a Statistician. While there he traveled to Sacramento with various legislation. 
His most frequently spoken accomplishment while doing this was equalizing school 
funding and seeing that children with special needs were given education in their 
own schools.
Paul spent his later years living in his beloved Blue Jay cabin and spending 
winters here in California City. He met and enjoyed many of the citizens here in 
the desert. He enjoyed going on the Senior Center trips.
He is survived by his only daughter Carla Dixon, two grandchildren, and five 
great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial to Paul between Christmas and New 
Years at his cabin in Blue Jay. In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate 
donations made to the charity of your choice in his name

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