DORIS JEAN SEARS

November 16, 1929 - September 20, 2021

A Bakersfield gal through and through - Doris Jean Pickett Sears was born at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield California and passed away peacefully and quickly at the same hospital. She was the only child of Edgar Stanley Pickett and Olive Dorothy Kundel Pickett.

Doris attended Bakersfield High School, where she met and eventually married her husband James P. Sears. They had a long courtship, as Doris went to University of California Santa Barbara and Jim to Woodbury College in Los Angeles. Jim and Doris married in 1952 and had two daughters Darcy J. Sears (Edward T. Wilson) and Dana Sears Farrell (Jeffrey B. Farrell). She delighted in her grandchildren Brandon and Tyler Farrell and Audrey Elizabeth Wilson.

As an active volunteer, Doris enjoyed being involved in many various organizations including Bakersfield Junior League and The American Cancer Society Discovery Shop. She

loved spending time in Laguna Beach, reading, and most of all playing all types of card games. She was an expert bridge player and played with her friends for decades and most recently twice weekly games at Rosewood Senior Living Community. She was a good spirited “card shark”, that beat her mother (whom she inherited the love of cards from), and later beat her husband, children, grandchildren and friends at any card game they could play. We all came back for more - time and time again because she was so much fun to play with... especially at cocktail hour.

Doris had a wonderful group of friends in the Bakersfield community especially Patricia Lynch (Pat) who passed away in 2016 and most recently her previous neighbor, Mary Ellen Agan.

In lieu of flowers, donations made to the Kern County Cancer Fund (an amazing program dedicated to assisting under-insured or uninsured local cancer patients pay for treatment) would be appreciated.