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Sharon Creighton, 64, former convention services coordinator, Westem Building Material Association, Olympia, Wa., died of cancer April 21 in Olympia. She worked for the WBMA from 1995 to 1999.

Frank Sinclair. 90, founder, Sinclair Paint Co., Los Angeles, Ca., died June 3 in Los Angeles.

A native of Massachusetts, he opened his first Sinclair Paint store in Los Angeles in 1928, and expanded in the mid-1940s by becoming the paint supplier for the con-

..BUSINESS OBITUARIES''

The June issue carries stories of the Sequoia Forest Industries mill closure and the demise of Goodman Lumber. Perhaps you should start a new feature for these "business obituaries."

John A. Saunders Economy Lumber Co. 720 Campbell Ave. Campbell, Ca. 95008

At least in the case of Sequoia Forest Industries, we could run the feature under the headinp "Politics." - Editor struction of the new city of Lakewood. He sold the firm to Insilco Corp. in the early 1970s, but remained as chairman until his retirement in 1983.

Woodrow O. "Woody" Ashby, 83, retired plant manager, Diamond International Lumber Co., Red Bluff, Ca., died May 13 in Red Bluff.

A native of Poplar Bluff, Mo., he was working on Guam as a government contractor when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. whereupon he became a prisoner ofwar and was held in Kobe, Japan, for 45 months.

He began working for Diamond International in 1964, became manager the following year, and retired in 1983.