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Donald Turnupseed Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/18/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

**Cache is not at the coordinates posted above**

This is brief bio of a local boy named Donald Turnupseed. The following is a true accounting of his life. There is one major event in his life that has been left out. You will need to discover the date of that event
(September AB, CDEF) to solve the puzzle and make the find on this cache.
Donald Turnupseed

Donald grew up in a little town nearby called Tulare, and attended Tulare Union High School. He spent some time in the Navy. Other than that he spent nearly his entire life in Tulare.

Turnupseed inherited his father’s electrical business and built it into a multi million-dollar company.

Donald married twice, was widowed once, had 3 children, 1 stepson and 5 grandchildren.

He succumbed to lung cancer (he had been diagnosed in late '93) on July 13, 1995, in his home in Tulare. He was 63 years old.


The Puzzle






Congrats to Joint Love on the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[final] cbyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)