George Earl Shelton Jr.

? Graveside inurnment services for George Earl Shelton Jr., 49, El Centro, will be Sept. 3 at Evergreen Cemetery in El Centro.

Mr. Shelton died March 19, 2001, at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, Calif., from a heart attack. He was cremated.

He was born Feb. 18, 1952, in Brawley, Calif., the son of George and Leona Shelton. He attended Eudora, Kan., schools from 1965 to 1968 and graduated from Central Union High School in El Centro in 1970.

Mr. Shelton was a member of the Tulare and Arizona go-kart clubs and was a truck pulling competitor and four-wheel driver.

Survivors include two sons, George “Buddy” Jr., Visalia, and Christopher Santibanez, El Centro; a daughter, Mona Casey, Visalia; a sister, Wanda Dickey, Lawrence, Kan.; and two grandsons.