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rowing up in the Northwest coast, Eureka CA, Cash had a great love and appreciation for all its beauty and all it had to offer. He cherished those memories his entire life. He told many stories to all who would listen about fishing in the ocean, the Redwood forests, and many other tales of things that were so dear to him.
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e moved to Oklahoma as a teenager with his family, and later started a family of his own there. He met his wife Debra Brace in 1976. Together they had two children. After several years he moved his family first up to Kansas, then to Oregon, Washington, and finally back to his childhood home town of Eureka CA. He would later move them back to Kansas and what would be their permanent home.
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ash deeply loved his wife, children, his siblings, parents, and grandparents. He stressed equally his love for all of his relatives, as well as for all mankind.
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e believed that we are all gifts to each other from God and should be greatly treasured. He proved it well by the way he lived his life. He had a vast knowledge of love and God and his teachings. Cash would share his knowledge, experience, and lessons airing and claiming the gifts given to him.
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ash believed strongly in giving without expectations and to take joy in the simplicities. He was an awesome human being. His secret? He humbly did not know it.
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is love of family included a strong work ethic which all started as a young boy delivering papers before the break of dawn. Body worn and hands freezing. His prize was being able to buy a soda and a comic book. Later he traveled to the panhandle of Texas to work with an uncle. Hot and dirty was a simple way to describe it but he always spoke of it with fondness. It was when his own family began that work took on new meaning; to support a wife and raise a child. He took on such jobs as hauling hay bales for 3 cents per bale. Running pipe at oil rigs in western Oklahoma. A press brake operator at a manufacturing plant. A design engineer at a world renowned International corporation. That last being his longest and last job. It was there that he carried forth his love of excellence at work. He became a cornerstone of the business and one whom people came to for answers from around the country and around the globe. If he didn't know the answer he sure knew how to figure it out.
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e is preceded in death by his wife Debra Jean Wakefield. His parents Jearlene Gae Rogers (Wall) and Mac Wesley Wakefield. His twin sister Carla Wakefield and brother Matt Wakefield.
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e is survived by his children Michael Wesely Wakefield and Sarah Marie Wakefield. His grandchildren Kevin Wakefield, Jacob Wakefield, Jessie Davis, Elijah Davis, and Natalie Davis. Also by his siblings Susan Ratlif with husband Kirby, Mickie Clark, and Lora Wakefield
