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Date: 3 Nov 2003 11:10:36 -0700

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Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County
September 4, 2003

LORRAINE GROVES CASH 1922-2003

Big Pine resident Lorraine Groves Cash died Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003. She was 80.
At her request services will be private. If you wish to honor her memory, the family request donations in her name be sent to Pioneer Home Health Care or the Methodist Church's Care Center.
Cash was born Dec. 22, 1922 on a buffalo ranch in Audubon, N.J., her family having recently moved from Philadelphia, Penn., where they had lived since pre-revolutionary days. She was proud of her American heritage and her family's role in the early formation of our government: her great-great-great-grandfather was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She was also very proud of the fact that all of her grandsons served their country, one attending West Point, and that all of her grandchildren graduated from college.
In 1930, the family moved to the west coast and lived in Medford, Ore., and parts of California.
She was a rambunctious girl who loved chasing little "sissy girls" with the garden snakes she regularly captured. She could climb a tree higher than most boys, once breaking her arm just to prove it.
In 1940, she married Harold L. Cash. Following the family tradition of public service, they moved to the China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station where she busily reared three daughters, and pursued a career in civil service working in the Technical Information Division. She began dabbling in arts and crafts. Her range of interest was expansive, she read extensively, could identify most native plants throughout the west, and was a student of horticulture, geology and geography. She loved to fish, and could often be found at Crowley Lake on opening morning, icicles dripping from her line, having a ball.
She traveled extensively for the Navy as well as for pleasure.
After her retirement, Cash and her husband moved to Big Pine. By that time, her interest in gardening and crafts had become fully developed and she produced an amazingly varied and prolific body of work - fruits, vegetables, quilts, dolls, jewelry and ceramics. She was a member of the Calico Quilters and quilters were her dearest friends in the valley. With them she spent many an all-nighter drinking coffee and working on one of their complicated projects. She was loved by her many friends for her witty, sometimes bawdy, sense of humor and her great enthusiasm for life.
She is survived by her three daughters Virginia Crom, Jeanne Printy and Ann David, their husband, children and grandchildren.
She was preced in death by her husband of 54 years, Harold Cash.
Arrangements and media information provided by Brune & Buck Mortuary of Bishop CA.

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