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James Allen 6(Jip, Ramsey, 86, 60-year veteran of the West Coast forest products industry, died July I l.

After serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II and graduating from Washington State University in 1948, he started his lumber career with Weyerhaeuser, later joining Union Lumber, Fort Bragg, Ca., as a salesman in the Chicago area.

He relocated to Fort Bragg in 1974, after the facility was purchased by Georgia-Pacific. After retiring, he worked for Windsor Mill, Windsor, Ca.

Robert Reimer, 82, founder of Western Wood Preserving Co., Sumner, Wa., died June l8 in Sumner.

He founded the company in 197 1 and retired in 1996. WWPC is now headed by his son, Mike.

Maxine Niebling, 80, retired secretary at the Portland, Or., office of North American Wholesale Lumber Association, died June 15 in Gresham, Or.

Ms. Niebling starting working at NAWLA in 1955 and retired 33 years later. In 1975, she married NAWLA's western manager, Pete Niebling, who died in 2006.

Lloyd Judson Allen, 95, founder of Allen Logging Co., Forks, Wa., died July 3 in Port Angeles, Wa.

Mr. Allen got his start in the industry in 1935, when he purchased a 1931 Chevrolet truck for $325 and began hauling pulpwood to paper mills. He started Allen Logging, which eventually included both veneer and stud mills, in 1946 and retired in 2OO1

Clara Victoria Hansen, 100, coowner of Hansen Building Materials & Supplies, Tranquillity, Ca., died July l6 in Tranquillity.

She opened the firm with her husband, Marius , in 1945 and continued to work every day until she was 96.

Joseph Michael Angelo, 82, retired mill manager for LouisianaPacific, Post Falls, Id., died July 2l

He worked for a St. Maries, Id., sawmill after graduating from high school in 1949. After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he returned to the mill. In 1963, he joined L-P as a sawyer, working his way uP to manager before retiring in 1995.

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