Lorin Ross Dedrickson

Lorin Ross Dedrickson, recently of Clarkdale, passed over to a higher command after 87 active and productive years on the planet. Lorin was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1928 and graduated from High school at age 16. His course of study at Utah State University, college of Natural Recourses focused on ecology and civil engineering. He was captain of the ROTC rifle marksmanship team, a mountain-climber, skier, and naturalist at Sequoia National Park in 1940. With an ROTC officer scholarship he was called to active duty in the US Army at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA. After the Pearl Harbor event, he served in the Anti-aircraft organizations of the Army. He applied to the US Army Air Corps after service in the Desert Warfare training, Mojave Desert and was assigned to the USAAC 9th Air Force in England. He subsequently accepted a commission in the Army Air Corp which in 1948 became the USAF, a new branch of the Department of Defense. He received an MBA degree at Stanford University Business School and was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission. A long service with the Energy Commission between 1950-58 included: contract administration duties at Nevada test sites, Pacific nuclear test area west of Hawaii, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, and inspection of nuclear and non nuclear facilities throughout the country. He served with the 5th Air Force in Japan and later as a ranking Colonel, Officer in Charge of the Pacific Unified Command's alternate "command and control center" in Hawaii. In 1962 he was transferred and served as Deputy for Material for the 832 Air Divisions at Canon Air Force Base, Clovis New Mexico. He retired from the USAF in 1964. For a short time he was employed at Sperry Rand, Utah, and later as engineering manager at The Boeing Company in Washington. He retired to 20 years of ranch life in Washington and Montana with his first wife of 52 years who died in 2000. Ross is survived by long term acquaintance and wife, Judith Jubb, and five children including daughter Karen, and sons David, Kevin, Brian and Harry. Ross was a lifetime member of the American Society of Dowsers, and an ordained minister in the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards. He touched many lives of friends and students and his exuberant spirit will be missed.