Most of her projects involved salvage work, excavating Texas historic sites ahead of major construction in the 1960s and 1970s.
She attended Newcomb College,[1] and graduated from Tulane University with a degree in physics.
[2][3] Lorrain was a staff archaeologist at Southern Methodist University's Anthropology Research Center,[4] and a member of the Texas Archaeological Salvage Project.
[2] For example, the National Park Service supported her work at prehistoric sites in Cooke County, before they were flooded to create Hubert H. Moss Lake in 1966.
[6] In 1965, she directed the Texas Archeological Society's fourth annual field school.