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  • Pioneer Fern Dargatz Sanford turning 100

    Jennie Sanford McGucklian, For The Shafter Press|Aug 10, 2023

    Fern Dargatz Sanford, a Shafter resident, is about ready to turn 100. Her daughter wrote of her life for The Shafter Press. Fern Dargatz Sanford was born on Aug. 15, 1923, at the family homestead in Anaheim. Her parents, Leo and Genevieve Dargatz, were citrus farmers, as were her grandparents, Otto Dargatz and Amelia Peters, German immigrants from Ukraine. Fern attended elementary school in Santa Ana. She learned to play the drums and the violin. The Dargatz's attended Aimee Semple McPherson's B...