NIPINNAWASEE — Nell Worman lived in three centuries.
    She died on Sunday.
    “I’ve had a good life, but you forget so much,” she lamented while celebrating her 100th birthday last year.
    She was born Nell Ashby on April 14, 1899, in Wisconsin.
    She recalled her life during an interview just after her birthday last year. [“A Century of Mountain Memories,” Sierra Star, April 23.]
    She was reared in Colorado and studied to be a teacher. She taught there for a year and then announced her departure for California.
    She resided for a time in Sacramento but fell in love with the Sierra Nevada.
    She taught in Newport Beach for three years, then for a year in Kern County. “But I was always coming back here to visit the people I knew. I wanted to come to the mountains,” Mrs. Worman recalled.
    During one such visit she met Russell Worman. They were married in 1935 in Las Vegas.
    The Worman family had purchased property near the Madera-Mariposa county line and built a sawmill there. They operated the mill until it closed in the early 1960s.
    There were no children, but Mrs. Worman had lots to keep her busy, including orchards and strawberry patches.
    And her hats. Mrs. Worman made her own clothing and her own hats — lots of hats.
    Mr. Worman died in 1980 and Mrs. Worman continued living in the home they built in 1945.

    NORTH FORK — The second of four scheduled snow surveys in the High Sierra above Bass Lake has been completed by the U.S. Forest Service
    From February 28 to last Wednesday, measurements were taken at nine locations within the North San Joaquin River Drainage Basin.
    The figures indicate that current water content of the local area snow pack is about 120% of normal for this time of year. This is a tremendous improvement over last month when measurements indicated only about 50%.
    Because snow was found down at the 3,500 elevation, with surface conditions very soft and wet, travel by foot and machine was quite rigorous.
    Surveyors were unable to access the Cora Lakes snow course in the Ansel Adams Wilderness due to an all day storm on February 29, which dumped an additional six to eight inches of snow on the High Country.
    Average snow depths ranged from 71.1 inches at Poison Meadow to 118.3 inches at Green Mountain northeast of Clover Meadow, which also recorded the deepest single measurement of 124 inches.