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

On Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 10:09:58 PM UTC-7, Topic Cop wrote:
> 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?

On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Betts <tbetts26@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>> 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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In article <0550dbf0-0831-4b9d-94ee-13647993f9a5n@googlegroups.com>,
Tom Betts <tbetts26@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 10:09:58PM UTC-7, Topic Cop wrote:
>> 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).

April 1983
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I'm guessing that she actually died March 30th (Wednesday, as mentioned in
the obit).

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In article <u0pnu4$tla0$1@dont-email.me>,
David Carson <davo@neosoft.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Betts <tbetts26@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>> 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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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> In article <u0pnu4$tla0$1@dont-email.me>,
> David Carson <davo@neosoft.com> wrote:
>>On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Betts <tbetts26@yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>> 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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In article <v1oi6f$lqe$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
>Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>> In article <u0pnu4$tla0$1@dont-email.me>,
>> David Carson <davo@neosoft.com> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT), Tom Betts <tbetts26@yahoo.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 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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