Ann C. Cone, 79; Former Dispatcher for CHP

Longtime county resident and former CHP dispatcher Ann C. Cone died Sunday. She was 79.

Cone was born Nov. 14, 1918, in Salt Lake City. She was raised in Elko, Nev., where she attended grade school and high school.

Cone attended two years of college in Nevada before moving to Santa Paula in 1946 and taking a job as an assembly line worker in Port Hueneme, her family said.

“She lived at the Grand Hotel in Santa Paula, and she used to say it cost her $7 a week and that included her meals,” said Cone’s daughter, Jeanine Thurman of Ventura.

Also in 1946, Cone married and moved to Ventura. In 1952, she began working as a clerk at Camarillo State Hospital, the first of several state government positions she would hold over the next 30 years, her daughter said.

Cone later worked as a dispatcher at the Ventura office of the California Highway Patrol. She retired in 1982 from a clerical position at Caltrans, her daughter said.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Noel Cone, a daughter, Helen C. Larsen, and a son, William T. Boyd.

Cone was an avid clothes shopper and rose gardener, her daughter said. She also enjoyed oil painting and crocheting.

“She was a really good artist but she kind of put it aside while she was raising her family,” Thurman said.

In addition to Thurman, Cone is survived by another daughter, Janice Horton of Bakersfield, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

There will be a visitation from noon to 5 p.m. today at Ted Mayr Funeral Home in Ventura. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura. The officiant will be the Rev. Jim Wells.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Ventura County Unit, in Ventura.