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Ethel Dean Bush was born in Canyon Creek, California, to Edward and Mary Ellen (née Pedlar) Bush, the second of five children. As a young girl, she spent her summers at the lumber mills of Canyon Creek, where her father worked, and most of her winters at her grandfather’s house in nearby
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