OB[lIUARIES

Peter Lane, 48, president and owner of Wisconsin-Califomia Forest Products, Redding, Ca., and his wife, Debrah, 37, were killed in a plane crash Sept. 15, 1991, in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada.

He was returning from a fishing trip when their twin-engine plane reportedly experienced engine trouble upon takeoff.

A native of Wisconsin. Mr. Lane started the company in 1968. He also owned Girvan Lumber Co. and Latona Lumber Co. Inc., both in Redding.

Barry Heppner, 47, president and chief executive officer of Heppner Hardwoods Inc., Azusa, Ca., died of brain cancer Aug. 31, 1991, in Covina, Ca.

A native of Manitoba, Canada, Mr. Heppner spent 15 years at Atlas Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., before opening Heppner Hardwoods in 1979. At the same Azusa site, he also founded custom mill Knight Industries and co-owned softwood company Max Hill Lumber Co. with partner Bill Fox.

Bob Hasselblad, 70, founder of Hasselblad Lumber Sales, St. Helens, Or., died Sept. 12, 1991, in St. Helens.

Born in Tacoma, Wa., Mr. Hasselblad moved to Oregon in 1959 and became manager of Friesen Lumber's St. Helens mill the next vear. He opened his own company in igZt.

Anne C. Murray, 84, founder of the National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club for women in the lumber industry, died Aug.29, 1991, in Los Angeles, Ca.

Born in Youngstown, Oh., Ms. Murray began her lumber career in the

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(Continued lion page 35) early 1930s at Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles. She also worked for W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber and L.A. Lumber Co. before joining Roy Forest Products, Colton, Ca., in 1956. She rctired in 1981.

Mark McNally, Vent Vue Window Products, [,os Angeles, Ca., married Elba Lugo Sept. 14, 1991.

Robert Weiglein, Fibreboard Box & Millwork Corp., Red Blufi Ca., is attending the Oct. 9-13 Tokyo Housing Fair in Japan, along with Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association's Bernard J. Tomasko and James A. Mercer. Tomasko, Weiglein and Tom MacDonald, Contact Lumber Co., Portland. Or.. will attend next month's Interbuild'91 in Birmingham, England.

In 1956, she laid the groundwork in Los Angeles for the Hoo-Hoo-Ettes, which grew to a national organization by 1963. She was named Lumber Woman of the Year in 1976.

Wallace E. "Wdly'' Kennedy, 67, operator of Kennedy Lumber Co., Fresno, Ca., died Aug. 13, 1991, in Fresno.

A lifelong native of Fresno, he joined the family business in the late 1940s, taking over with brother Richard when their father died in 1950. He had been semi-retired for the last five years.

Mr. Kennedy also wlote the popular booklet "My Daddy Is a Lumberman."

Warren T. Hull, 95, founder of Hull Bros. Lumber Co., Canoga Park, Ca., died Sept. 16, 1991, in Encino, Ca.

Born in Osceola, Ne., he joined Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co. before serving in World War I. In l9l9 he became assistant manager then manager of Hayward Lumber Co., Fillmore, Ca.

With brother Merritt, he opened Hull Bros. in West Hollywood, Ca., in 1922. Yards were added in Reseda, Fillmore and Canoga Park. In 1972 the West Hollywood yard was closed and Mr. Hull retired with continuing interest in the Canoga Park location.

Therese Elaine Camy'Barber, 68, died Sept. 12, 1991, while attending the annual Hoo-Hoo Intemational convention in kura, Ausnalia.

Her widower, Bernard Barber, Jr'., is deeply involved in the Fresno HooHoo Club, Woodwork Institute of California and his own firm, Bemie Barber & Associates, Fresno, Ca.

Marc Spitz is new to Bear Forest Products, Riverside, Ca., specializing in sales to contractor-oriented yards.

Tom Stumpf, Western Wood Preserving Co., Sumner, Wa., has been elected pres. of the Tacoma-Olympia Hoo-Hoo Club. New v.p. is Mark Ostrom, Packwood Lumber; vicegerent snark Ron Malmassari, Disdero Lumber Co.; recording sec. Jack llarrington; sec.-treas. John C. Crawford. Directors: Jolm A. Humphrey, Humphrey Lumber; Logan Longworth, Northwest Forest Products; Al Meier, Al Meier Investments; Norm lrons, Lumbermen's; George Shea, Palmer G. Lewis Co., and Joe Schefller.

John Snyder, retired manager of Pope & Talbot's Oakridge, Or., plant, died August 10, 1991. He was 78.

Burns Lumber Co. Cover I

Cal Coast Wholesale Lumber, Inc....--........41

California Hardwoods ...................................26

Cal Plus Forest Products...............................26

C&E Lumber Co............................................46

3-C Trucking.. ......................49

Coastal Lumber Co........-........-----..-.......35

Don Day

Fontana Wholesale Lumber,, Inc. .................4t

Forcstar Distribution

Fremont Forest Pruducts-------......Cover II

Frost Hardwood Lumber Co.....-----........32

Golding Sullivan Lumber Sa|es....................23

Hardwarc Wholesalers, Inc.............................5

Hardwoods

River Forest Products ..............29

Navqio Forest Products Industries...............26

Norman Lumber Co. .....................................19

North American Plywood Corp......................6

Pacifi c Forest Products.................................37

Pacilic Mill & Lumber...................................34

Pacifi c Millwork Inc. -------.........................7

Panel-Tex........ ......................29

Parr Lumber Co.................................Cover IV

Penberthy Lumber Co.....-------.----.......37

Philips Lumber Sa|es................--------.....32

Popular Woodworking (EGW Publishing Co.)...-----....................44

Precision Mill & Lumber....... -------,..,,,..22

Product Sales Co. .............................................4

Redwood Coast Lumber Co..........................47

Redwood Empi re.----------.......................25

Reel Lumber Service ............-...........Cover III

Regal Custom Millwork .........-----.Cover III

River City Moulding Co................................'10

Rossmann MacDonald & Benetti.....Cover III

Schaller Forest Products .....-.......-..............36

Siskiyou Forest Products..............-.......-......45

South Bay Forest Products Co......................21

Sumwood. Inc./Suchanan llardwood ..........47

Swan Secure.... .....................30

Thomas Forest Products, J.M......................22

Thunderbolt Wood Trrating -----.-.Cover II

TNT Lumber Co. ..........................................3t

Trcated Forest Products----------...........31

Trcated Pole Builders, Union Forest Products

Unity Forrst Products....................................49

Waldron Forest Prpducts.............................39

Western Woods, Inc........................................3

Western Wood Treating..................................5

White Bros...... ......................19

Woodfold-Marco Manufacturing, Inc. .......20

Yuba River Specialty Mi11ing........................4 I