Harry L. Bergen, a longtime resident of Kern County, died December 26, 2004
after a short illness. Harry was born in 1918, in Choteau, Oklahoma to Jacob
R. and Gertrude Loewen Bergen. He moved to the Buttonwillow area with his
parents in 1923 and attended Shafter High School, graduating in 1937. He worked
for what became Exxon-Mobil Oil in Taft, San Ardo, Bakersfield, and Los
Angeles, retiring in 1978. He married Thelma Bishop in 1947; she died in 1978. In
1986 he married Virginia Sparks Rominger; she died in 1993.
He is survived by his daughter, Trudy Bergen and son-in-law, Don Kennan of
Albuquerque, New Mexico; sisters, Elizabeth Peters of Edmonds, Washington, and
Elcy Larson of Shafter; brother, Roland Bergen of Morro Bay; stepdaughter,
Virginia Charlton of Tahoe City, California; and numerous nieces and nephews who
fondly remember "Uncle Harry."
