Oltha*d

lVclll<lrc Stcrvart llurnett, chairntan of the board of Harnnl()n(l l,umbcr Company, Silt'l lirancisco, l)asscd away in Stn lirancisco Iicbrttary Ztl aftcr a short illncss.

f lc was brlrn in Iloll-vrvootl, Northcrn Ireland, in 1874, :ln(l rcccivc<l his early educ:rtiort irt llclfast, an(l latcr came to thc Unitccl Statcs. I [c sttr<licd law at thc Univcrsity of (iolor:r<lo, fronr which hc graduatc<!, and was admitte(l to thc lr:rr in Colorit<lo in lft97. On April, lfl9.9 hc was a(lnlitlcrl to thc bitr of (.:tlifttrttiil, cllnlc to S:ttt Iir:tttcisctl in 1899, an(l entcrc(l tlrc thor lltrv firtrr of I'}agc, I\tcCutchc<ln & Knight.

l\[r. ]Jurnctt bccanrc a naturitlized citizcn of this country in 190?. In 1908 hc rn:rrric<l Miss Gr:rcc Ilanrntond, daughtcr of thc latc A. B. II:trnmorrtl. fountlcr of lllttnmott<l Lumlrcr Conrllatry.

Iicsi<lcs his widorv ltc lc:tvcs ()nc s()rt, Antlrcrv Ilarnrnond Ilurnctt, rvho livcs itr Sant:r llarb:rra. In 1910 he joined thc I Iarnnrorl(l Lrlnll)cr (ionrP:tnr', :rrl(l alnrost cotltinuotlsly sincc thcu has bccn gcncral cotlrlscl for thc lirm. IIc u'as :r nlcrnbcr of thc l'acific llnirln Club, St. lirartcis Yacht (llrrb lrn<l (lrrnnronrvcalth Cllulr ()f San Francisco.

T. J. (Tom) Orr

'l'homas J. Orr, rvidcly ktrown lumbcrtnan, president of Monarch I-umbcr Corp., Oaklancl, passed away February 13. Ilc rvas borrr in Kcntucky 70 years ago, and spent 54 c()nsccutivc years in the lumbcr business, starting as a boy of 16 with Cole & Crane, Cincinnati, hardwood manfacturcrs, who at one time operated 14 band mills. He was later a partner in thc firm of McPhcc & McGinty, Denver, for many )'ears. FIc camc to the Pacific Coast in 1933. He \virs associatcd with lte<lrvoocl Manufacturers, Pittsburg, Calif. for a ferv years, rvas later rvith Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., and with Fcather Falls Pine Mills. He had been with Monarch Lumber Corp. since 1943.

Hc is survived by his wiclow, Mrs. Luella Orr; two sons, Thomas J. Orr, Jr., and Robert G. Orr, and a sister, Mrs. Harriet Sweney of Cincinnati.

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Lcrnglord W. Smith

Langford W. Smith, 65, passed away in Berkeley, JanLrary 23. tle rvas born in Minneapolis, and came to California in 1904. He was a graduate of the University of California. He was formerly sales mana[ier for Red River I-umber Co., and for the past several years operated a manufacturers' agency in San Francisco. Hc is stlrvived by his son, L. Wheaton Smith of Palo Alto, and tlvo sisters.

J. S. Jones

J. S. Jones, 71, passed away February 9 in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 1944. He was at one time owner of the Savings Loan Association in El Centro and part owner of the Valley Lumber Co., with yards in El Centro and Calexico. He lived in the Imperia"l Valley for 35 years before moving to Los Angeles in 1944.

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