OBITUARIES

ATOIS G. HEBERTE

Aloie G. Heberle, owner of Geib Lumber Co. in Huntington Park, Calif. died July 20. IIe was 51.

Born in Henderson, Minn., May 14, 1916 he attended business school in Le Sueur, Minn. before moving to California in 1937.

He started to work for Henry Amos Geib at Geib Lumber Co., became a partner and later sole owner. He was in the U.S. Army in World War II. Mr. Heberle was a member of the Kiwanis Club.

Mr. Heberle is survived by his widow Clara M. Heberle; three daughters, Georgia Lee, Betty and Mary; a son' A. G.' Jr.; a brother. Robert J. Heberle, Jr.; two sisters and two grandchildren.

JAMES G. FRUTCHEY

James G. Frutchey, 40-year-old Los Angeles wholesaler and owner of Los-Cal Lumber Co., was shot to death July 2, in the back yard of his lavish Rolling Hills Estates home following a scuffie with his father-in-law arrd another man, police investigators revealed.

Frutchey's father-in-law, Arthur B. Morgan, 65, a Long Beach, Calif. restaurant operator, and Billie Lee McHenry, 47, ? Long Beach used car dealer, were booked on suspicion of murder.

The fight was a continuation of a long feud between the two in-laws in which the father-inlaw accused Frutchey of mistreating his wife of the past 13 years, Charleen Joan Frutchey, officers said.

Morgan and McHenry had arrived at the Frutchey home about 2:20 a.m., officers were told. An argument between the two relatives became violent and shots were fired.

Frutchey was shot three times, but the only weapon found on the premises, a '38caliber revolver, had been fired only once, the detectives said.

In the scume between FrutcheY and Morgan, McHenry had intervened to help Morgan.

\Mhen deputies arrived at Frutchey's expensive home in response to a phone call from Morgan's wife Dorothy, they found Frutchey dead from gunshot wounds and Morgan bleeding from cuts on the head and hands, deputies reported.

The fight was witnessed by Mrs. Morgan and the- Frutcheys' 11-year-old daughter, Linda.

Morgan was treated for his cuts and held in the prison ward of L.A. County Hospital. McHenry was taken to countY jail.

Frutchey was employed at Los-Cal Lumber from 1951 until his death. Los-Cal was foundecl in 1946 by Frutchey's father, J. E. "Elmer" Frutchey and Bill Haydon. Jim Frutchey assumed the managership -of the yard foilowing the death of his father in 1965.

The yard is currently being managed by Frutchey's half-brother, Doug Gerard, who had helped to establish the yard in 1946 and continued with the firm until two years aso when he became associated with O. M' H-ill Lumber of Pasadena, Calif. as a lumber broker.

Survivors include Frutchey's mother, Winifred; his widow, Charlene; a son' B-rian' 8; a daughter, Linda, 11; a half-sister, Vera Gerard, and Doug Gerard.

I. SWITT BERRY

J. Swift Berry, former California state senator and general manag:er of the Michigan California Lumber Co., died June 28. IIe was 80.

He retired in 1949 from the Michigan California Lumber Co. after working for them for 26 Years.

A native of Nebraska, he went to California with the U. S. Forest Service.

BETSY S. FARI{STIORTH

Betsy S. Farnsworth, wife of California Redwood Association executive vice president Phillip T. Farnsworth died June 28. She was 55.

Mrs. Farnsworth was prominent in San Francisco cultural circles. She was a founder and former president of the Art League of the East Bay, a former president of the Junior League of Oakland and a member of the 'Women's Board of the Oakland Museums Association, the Piedmont Garden Club and the Piedmont Home Gardeners.

Mrs. Farnsworth also is survived by two sons, Terry and John; a brother, Witliam L. Strietmann of Alameda; and a sister, Mrs. H. M. Mosher of Piedmont.

THOMAS t. HUBBIRO

Thbmas L. Hubbard, purchasing agent for Hubbard & Johnson Laminated Structures, Mountain View, Calif., died after a short illness June 24. He was 60 years old.

Mr. Hubbard served with the U.S. Sea Bees during WW II at Guam, Casa Blanca and French Morroco as purchasing agent for government construction of air bases. He had also been president of the Builders Exchange for Santa Clara County since 1941.

Mr. Hubbard was a member of B.P.O.E. ft522 of San Jose and Friendship Lodge #399 F.& A.M. His father, A. L. Hubbard, was County Supervisor of Santa Clara County for 28 years.

Ele leaves his widow Fern, of their 1096 Willow Glen Way home in San Jose; a son Albert of San Jose; his daughter Mrs. Bruce Eberhardt of North Carolina and their three children; two sisters, Grace Hubbard of Auburn and Mrs. Allen Boomer of San Jose; and two brothers,'Wilbur, who is with the athletic department of San Jose State College, and Leslie "Bud" Hubbard, head of Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Company. TUMBER