Marie Vina [Tamplin] Griffin

© The Bakersfield Californian

Tuesday, 26 December 2006

Submitted by: Sandi Carter

Marie Vina [Tamplin] Griffin
April 13, 1912 - Dec. 19, 2006

Chapel services will be held at Greenlawn Mortuary, 3700 River Blvd. on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. for Marie Vina Griffin who passed away on December 19, 2006. Pastor Duana Meadors will officiate.

Marie was born in Ryan, Oklahoma to Walter and May Tamplin. Marie's mother, May, died early in life at 30. Marie spent most of her young life being mother to her brother, sister and father.

Marie married and had two children, Eugene and Virginia.

In 1937 her family and sister, Lucille, moved to California with friends. They settled in the Lamont/Arvin area where she worked in the packing sheds.

When WW II broke out, Marie and her kids moved to Richmond, California where she worked in the shipyards through the war. She then moved back to the Lamont/Arvin area.

In 1951, while working in the sheds at DiGiorgio Fruit Corp. she met and married Gilbert Griffin who was a shed foreman at DiGiorgio Farms. They lived with their two sons at DiGiorgio until Gilbert retired in 1969. They then moved to a home they owned in Lamont. They lived in Lamont until Gilbert died in 1983. Marie then moved to Bakersfield where she lived the remainder of her life.

Marie was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and May; brother, Cecil; husband, Gilbert; and son Eugene Rogez.

She is survived by her sister, Lucille; daughter, Virginia; sons, Loren and Ron; grandchildren, Carol Castro, Russell Sandlin, Kimberly Hampton, Gillian Hampton and Loren Hampton, Jr; great grandchildren, Justin and Nicholas Castro.

Greenlawn Mortuary

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