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John F. Brown, ownerz'president of Kernville Lumber Co., Inc., died April 23 of a heart attack. He was 52.

Bonr February 4, 1920, in Smallhouse, Ky., he worked for MaPle Rros. in Whittier for three years, and Peoples Lumber Co. for 18 years, first as assistant manager at their Camarillo yard, then as manager of the Ventura yard. He bought Kernville Lumbel in 19[0 and then in 1969 bought Mt. Mesa Lumber.

Mr. Brown collapsed on the plane during a Building Material Dealers Inc. trip to Hawaii. He died in a Honolulu hospital. Two months previous to his death he had sufrered a heart attack.

A Chief Petty Officer for three years in the United States Navy, he was active in the Lions Club and the

Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and was president of the Baptisb Men's Fellowship. He was a member of the Kernville Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Kern

Surviving is his widow, Dorothy; brothers Henry, Sam, and Robert; two sisters; children Linda, Douglas, and Dennis; and two grandchildren.