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Troy M. Cobb, founder and president of T. M. Cobb Co., died December 15 of heart failure in Los Angeles. He was 66.

Born March 16, 1904 in Okeene, Oklahoma, he resided in Valley Center, Calif., since 1944. He had lived in California since 1922.

He was a member of Utopia Lodge 537 F&AM of Los Angeles, Scottish Rite Bodies and Al Bahr Shrine Temple in San Diego.

Surviving are his widow, Violet; brother, Roy Cobb; sons, Ray, Donald and Thomas; five grandchildren and three sisters.

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Mrs. Leonard C. Hammond, 86, wife of the late Leonard C. Hammond, president of Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, died,December 29, 1970, at her home in Washington, Corur., after a long illness.

Born Dorothy Pery in New York, Mrs. Hammond attended Miss Spence's School and made her debut in the early 1900's. Married in 1908 to Alfred D. Bell, Sr., of New York, she received a divorce in 1916. She was again married in 1920 to Leonard C.

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Hammond, and from then on until after his death in 1945, lived in California.

Always interested in people and gardening, Mrs. Hammond was instrumental in founding the Women's Club in Samoa, Calif., and instituting a yearly beautification prize eompetition there. Long a member of the Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, her beautiful Woodside home, the first designed by the late Gardner Daily, was much admired.

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P=H=l=I lived at "fire Rocks," IVashington, Conn.; a lovely estate originally built and landscaped by her late uncle, the noted architect Eric Rossiter.

Survivors include a sister, Margery Perry of Philadelphia, Penn.l a son, Alfred D. Bell, Jr., Hillsborough, Calif.; four grandchildren, A. Dennis BeIl, III, Ramsay P. Bell and Christy T. Bell, all of l{illsborough, and Mrs. Diana BelI Chickering of San Francisco; three great-grandchildren, A. Dennis Bell, IV, Geoffrey L. Bell and Jonathan A. Bell.