OBITUARIES

fl0tYARD M. WAtt

Howard M. Wall, well-known international businessman and civic leader, died in Portland, Oregon, June 1. He was 60.

Born ih Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1907, Mr. Tlrall was founder and chairman of the board of Portco Corp., which has interests in Oregon, Washington, California and Colombia, South America. Headquarters are in Portland.

Mr. Wall started his business career working for a Portland bank in 1982. In 1934 he formed Portco Corp,, which started business as an import-export house.

Mr. Wall's principal business interests were always in the fields of timber opera- tions and paper and plastics converting. He had_considerable experience in developing markets for wood products from the philip: pines, the Far Dast and South America. He was considered a national expert on the de_velopment of South American Tropical hardwood timber operations, having -built lumber and plywood facilities on the Ama- zon River in Brazil and on the Pacific coast of Colombia.

In the late 1930's Mr. Wall formed St. Croix Sugar Cane Industries of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and was active in Virgin Islands civic and business afrairs until the time of his death.

He was a director of the M & M Woodworking Co. and was active in this business until the company was sold in 1956 to Simpson Timber Co.

Mr. Wall was also on the board of Fiberboard Corp. and Pickering Lumber Corp.

E. G. REET

E. G. Reel, founder of Reel.Lumber Service in Los Angeles, Calif., died June 17, 1968. He was 68.

He was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa, and took his early schooling in Aurora, Nebraska.

Mr. Reel began his lifelong career in the lumber industry when he came west and began work for Clarence Bohnhoff at Bohnhoff Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

Reel Lumber Service was founded in 1933 and will be continued by his two sons, Don and Gill.

Active in Boy Scout work, Mr. Reel was a

W.ifcrn Lumbcr & Duildlng llqtcriqlr mEnCHANf past district chairman of the George Washington district of the B.S.A. He also was a member of Palestine Lodge 351' F.&A.M.

He is survived by his widow, Allida, two sons, Don and Gill; and three granddaughters.

ELMER E. McG0t{l{Ett

Elmer E. Mdonnell, veteran millwork man and salesman for Western Door & Sash Co. in Oakland, Calif., died in that city May 29. He was 68.

A native of New York, Mr. McConnell spent most of his adult life in California and had been associated with Western Door & Sash Co. since 1944. In recent years he had been servicing the dealer trade in the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara County areas.

He was a member of Sempre Virens Lodge No. 552 F. and A. M. of Eureka and St. John's Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, Calif.

He is survived by his widow, Beulah H. McConnell; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret B. Penington of Great Falls, Montana; a sister, Margaret McConnell of Los Angeles; and three grandchildren, Pamela, Christoper and Jeffrey Penington.