Oltilucrry

Hormon F. ANAWAIT

Harmon Fred Anawalt,93, died February 2I at a Burbank sanatarium after a brief illness. He had retired nine years ago, at the age of 84, from the well-known Southern California retail lumber firm he founded ]n 1921.

"H. F.." as the veteran lumber dealer was known to everyone, was born in 1867 at Rock Island, Ill., and was in the lumber business nearly the entire span of his long life, active in the industry to the age of 84, when he was still going daily to his office at the Montrose yard of Anawalt Lumber & Materials Co. He started his career by operating retail yards in Kansas City, Mo., and Topeka, Kans., until 7921, when he went to California and started the first lumber yard in the foothills at Montrose. In the same year he opened a yard, at Tujunga, which has also operated continuously bver since and is now under the management of "H. F.'s" grandson, Bernard "Btizz" Anawalt, Jr. The third Anawalt yard soon followed at Pacoima and is now supervised by another grandson, Hal Anawalt. Mr. Anawalt was known and respected for his forthright opinions, which he expressed with frankness and vigor. He made his home in Glendale following his retirement.

He leaves six children : his sons-Bernard, president of the Anawalt Lumber & Materials Co. ; Bruce, of Oregon; H. F. "Fred" Anawalt, Jr., Pacific Palisades, and Howard, of Balboa; and two daughters-Mrs: Dorothy Myers, La Canada, and Mrs. Margaret Myers, Piedmont, who married brothers. The surviving 12 grandchildren and 1S-greatgrandchildren include the two grandsons Hal Anawalt, who is vice-president of the company, and Bernard Anawalt, Jr., who is secretary.

The late Mr. Anawalt was a Mason of. La Crescenta Valley Lodge 65 and a member of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. Masonic funeral services were conducted February 24, with interment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Louis B. NADEAU

Louis Brooks ("B") Nadeau, 65, died February 25 alter a lengthy illness. He was a longtime business associate and friend of Victor Roth, owner of the Triangle Lumber Company in Berkeley. Mr. Nadeau spent his entire career in lumber and came from the lVlichigan lumber community bearing the family name of Nadeau. After many years working beside his father in the family sawmill, Louis Nadeau moved to the West Coast. He spent several years with Wood Products Co. in Oakland and, in 1947, joined Triangle Lumber Company. He leaves his wife Helene of the home in Oakland, and his son Robert, also of Oakland. A brother still lives in Nadeau, Mich., where he is president of the bank. A sister of San Tose also survives.