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190:. Her husband died in 1984. She remained active in the environmental movement until her death, on January 19, 2016. Eastshore State Park was renamed McLaughlin Eastshore State Park in 2012, in recognition of her "tireless" environmental activism in the San Francisco Bay area. She became the second woman so honored in California, after
126:, the daughter of George E. Cranmer and Jean Louise Chappell Cranmer. Her father was a city park commissioner, and her mother was a violinist. Her maternal grandfather was Delos Allen Chappell, a Denver industrialist. While in Denver, she developed a love for the wilderness and the outdoors. She attended the
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