OBITUARIES

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Robert If. Atkinson, owner and operator, Atkinson Mill and Manufacturing Co., Oak.land, Calif., for 40 years, died October 2 of a heart attack. He was 71.

A native of Oakland, he was a member : of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce and the Lumber and Mill Employers Associa- tion. ll0llAul t. Hl0HrowER

Survivors include Mr. Atkinson's widow, Grace, nieces Janet Bowman, Betty Grifrtb, Phylis Meek and MerilYn Burnham.

Donald L. Hightower, co-o'wner and president of the Fleming-Hightower Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Calif., died of vasculararterial complieations. He was 66. '

Mr. HightowerVorked for Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. for 24 years before entering his own business. He started Fleming-Hightower Lumber with Tom Fleming shortly after World War II.

He was a member of the Elk's Club; Verdugo Club and the Kiwanis. He was a native of Georgia.

Mr. Hightower is survived by his widow' Marie; J. W. Hishtower and Julian Ilightower, brothersl and sisters, Mrs. Mary Watkins, Mrs. Leslie Le Compts and Migs Elizabeth Hightower.

DAVID F. WAGI{ER ll. G. "lllcl(" G0R0!L

David F. Wagner was killed instantly during the opening day of deer season in northeast Trinity County in Northern California by a single accidental shot fired by another hunter 250 yards away. The man who fired the bullet, Earl Dewald, of \[illow Creek, was not charged, pending fur' ther investigation of the accident.

'Wagner was 20 years old, lived in Eureka and was the son of ttMitcht Wagner, manager and one of the owners of Eumbolt Fir Company at HooPa.

N. G. "Nick" Cordil, president of the California State Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers and a business representative with the Los Angeles District Council of Carpenters, died of a heart attack October 1. IIe was 54:

He had helped to organize Union Local 2288 and had been with the Los Angeles District Council some 28 Years.

Mr. Cordil is survived bY his widow, Pauline; a brother, Ted; five sisters, Marie, Connie, Edith, Jane and Louise; a daughter' Judy, and son, Mikel and two grandchildren.

MARY B. SOUNES

Mary B. Squires, the owner of Squires Lumber Co. in Colton, Calif., and widow of Roy Squires, died of cancer' September 30. She was in her late 40's.

Born and educated in Shanghai, China' she met Roy Squires when he was a lumber dealer there. They went to Colton in 1940 and startetl in business in 1946. After he died in 1969 she continued to nrn the business.

She was a member of the Colton Womens Club, Zonta Club, and a director of the Colton Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Squires is survived by her mother, Constance Brewerl a brother, Peter; and sister, Peggy Jones.