Ginny Ashford turns 96

Virginia “Ginny” Margaret Ashford was born on Jan. 30, 1925 in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin. In 1968, Ashford and her husband Jim purchased their home in Carpinteria where she raised eight children. Known as GG by her 18 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren, Ashford worked in a welding factory after high school that made parts for the US Army Signal Corps. Ashford was the only woman who worked in the factory. She met her husband James at a USO dance, and they were married soon after. In 1976, Ashford began working at Carpinteria’s Casitas Hallmark, where she’d work for 34 years until it closed in 2010. She enjoyed putting stickers in her hair to celebrate the holidays and many might know her best as the Hallmark shop’s “Sticker Lady.”