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Lorraine Collett Petersen, 90, original Sun Maid girl
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Topic Cop
2023-04-07 05:09:56 UTC
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Lorraine Collett Petersen, the model for the glowing young woman on the Sun-Maid Raisin box, died here Wednesday. She was 90 years old.

While in high school in 1915, she posed in front of a blazing sun as the curly-haired young woman in a red bonnet clutching a basket of grapes.

A San Francisco artist, Fanny Scafford, painted the portrait while the model earned $15 a week, her pay as a part-time seeder and packer with the Griffin & Skelley Packing Company.

The Kansas City, Mo., native later accepted a small movie role in ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' but returned to Fresno after her father decided she should not be in Hollywood.

Mrs. Petersen ran a Fresno restaurant for two years, converted a former hospital into nursing home and retired as a nurse. The picture on raisin boxes today has been modernized, but is similar to the original work.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
Tom Betts
2023-04-07 16:47:37 UTC
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Lorraine Collett Petersen, the model for the glowing young woman on the Sun-Maid Raisin box, died here Wednesday. She was 90 years old.
While in high school in 1915, she posed in front of a blazing sun as the curly-haired young woman in a red bonnet clutching a basket of grapes.
A San Francisco artist, Fanny Scafford, painted the portrait while the model earned $15 a week, her pay as a part-time seeder and packer with the Griffin & Skelley Packing Company.
The Kansas City, Mo., native later accepted a small movie role in ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' but returned to Fresno after her father decided she should not be in Hollywood.
Mrs. Petersen ran a Fresno restaurant for two years, converted a former hospital into nursing home and retired as a nurse. The picture on raisin boxes today has been modernized, but is similar to the original work.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
David Carson
2023-04-07 18:37:48 UTC
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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
She wasn't born in 1932. The obituary is 40 years old.

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Kenny McCormack
2024-05-11 08:59:35 UTC
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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
She wasn't born in 1932. The obituary is 40 years old.
Yes, but as I note in my other post, the dates still don't quite add up.
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Louis Epstein
2024-05-11 19:50:39 UTC
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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
She wasn't born in 1932. The obituary is 40 years old.
Yes, but as I note in my other post, the dates still don't quite add up.
She was born December 9th 1892 and died March 30th 1983.

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Kenny McCormack
2024-05-11 21:44:16 UTC
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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
She wasn't born in 1932. The obituary is 40 years old.
Yes, but as I note in my other post, the dates still don't quite add up.
She was born December 9th 1892 and died March 30th 1983.
OK, but wouldn't that still make her (at least) 22 in 1915 - a little old
for High School.
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Kenny McCormack
2024-05-11 08:58:37 UTC
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Lorraine Collett Petersen, the model for the glowing young woman on the
Sun-Maid Raisin box, died here Wednesday. She was 90 years old.
While in high school in 1915, she posed in front of a blazing sun as the
curly-haired young woman in a red bonnet clutching a basket of grapes.
A San Francisco artist, Fanny Scafford, painted the portrait while
the model earned $15 a week, her pay as a part-time seeder and packer
with the Griffin & Skelley Packing Company.
The Kansas City, Mo., native later accepted a small movie role in
''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' but returned to Fresno after her
father decided she should not be in Hollywood.
Mrs. Petersen ran a Fresno restaurant for two years, converted a
former hospital into nursing home and retired as a nurse. The picture
on raisin boxes today has been modernized, but is similar to the
original work.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
How could she have been in high school in 1915 if she was born in in 1932?
If she died in 1983 (assuming the 1983/04/01 in the URL to be the date of publication)
then it almost/sort-of adds up.

If she was 90 in April '83, then she would have been born in 1892/3, and would be
a little old, but not impossibly so, to be in HS in '15. It would also
have been helpful to know how she got from KC to Fresno at such a young
age; that might go some way to explaining the dates/ages.

Of course, then we have to ask why such an old news item is being posted
now on this newsgroup (well, a year ago as I write this).

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I'm guessing that she actually died March 30th (Wednesday, as mentioned in
the obit).
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