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James Pierce, president and chairman of the bpard, Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., died March 19, 1984 of a heart attack. He was 67.

He was born in Santa Clara, Ca., and was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Pierce started with Paramino in 1936. He served as a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy in W.W.[.

After the war he went to work for Pacific Manufacturing in Santa Clara, a large millwork plant owned by his father. He left in the late 1950s, rejoining Paramino in the early 1960s. He subsequently left the industry for a period, rejoining Paramino Lumber in 1980.

Mr. Pierce is survived by his widow, Carolyn; two sons; and two daughters.

Roy Lee Dunbar, Brand X Lumber Co., died March 22, 1984, in Redding, Ca., in Redding. He was 59.

A self-employed lumber broker for 33 years, he was a member of Shasta-Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club. He was a past officer and Lumberman of the Year.

Mr. Dunbar is survived by two daughters, four sons, a brother and six grandchildren.

Norbert Bundschuh, owner and manager of the Myrtle Avenue Lumber Co., Monrovia, Ca., died April 13, 1984, after a long illness.

He had been in the lumber business for over 4O years.

Mr. Bundschuh is survived by his widow, Claire, a son, two sisters and five grandchildren.

Alfred L. "Al" Kerper, a retired lumberman, died April 18, 1984 in Citrus Heights, Ca., after a short illness. He was 78.

He had worked for a number of years as purchasing agent for Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, Ca., until it closed in 1945. He was v.p. and gen. mgr. of the Vaughn Millworks, Reno, Nv., from 1945 to 1949, when he joined the Paul Bunyan Lumber Co., working as a sales manager in both Redding and Susanville, Ca., until his retirement in 1976. He subsequently worked as a buyer for Dorris Lumber and Moulding Co., Sacramento, Ca.

Mr. Kerper was a contributing editor of The Merchant Mogazine from 1976 to the present. Active in Hoo-Hoo International, the lumbermen's fraternity, he was chairman of the Redwood Grove Committee, among other posts. He was also a Mason and a Shriner.

He is survived by his widow, Frances, two daughters and four grandsons.

FW. "Bill" Niesen, Niesen Forest Products, Fort Bragg, Ca., died unexpectedly April20, 1984, six days after his marriage to the former Eloise M. Scott.

George E. Otto, retired man, died March 31, 1984.

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His long career began in Minneapolis, Mn. He moved to New York in 1937, working in construction at the World's Fair, and arrived in Califor. nia in 1939 associated with Homola, a prefab housing operation. Subsequently he was affiliated with E. J. Stanton & Son., California Panel & Veneer, Tropical and Western Lumber, Harry H. White, Fairhurst, Twin Harbors Lumber, Burns Lumber Co. and Reliable Lumber Co. from which he retired last year. During World War II he served as a Signal Corps tech sergeant in the ChinaBurma-India Theater.

Mr. Otto is survived by his widow, Frances, a daughter and a son.

Born in lllinois, January 20, l9Z4 he was a graduate of the University of Illinois in Journalism. Niesen served in the U.S. Army in World War II and in Korea as a lieutenant. He moved to California in l9{8, working briefly in radio before joining the old Union Lumber Co. in Fort Bragg in the late l94os. He worked in a number of jobs, rising to be production' manager. He rernained with the firm when it was sold to Boise Cascade. Later, it was to be bought by GeorgiaPacific. In 1972 he left to form his own company. TWo years later Paul Ward joined him as a partner in Niesen-Ward Forest Products, a company that lasted until their amicable parting last year.

Mr. Niesen is survived by his widow, Eloise; a son and a daughter.

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