OBITUARIES

Robert J. "Bob" Carlow. an executive in the Carlow Company of Los Angeles, died March 14 following a heart attack. He was 38.

More than 400 industry associates and friends attended the funeral services. He was the son of Bertha Carlow and the brother of Jack Carlow who heads the family-owned firm.

Mr. Carlow is survived by his widow Shirley and three children: Robin Lee, Daniel AIan and Gayle Llene; his brother Jack, and a sister, Wilma Garfinkle of San Francisco.

Frecl L. Botsford, 85, a pioneer businessman closely associated with development of the West's railroads and the lumber industry, died February 26.

A native of Minneapolis, Kans., llr. Botsford left school at 1.4 to become a salesman in Kansas City. At 25, he came to San Francisco and played an important part in the promotion of redwood lumber throughout the United States.

After the 1906 quake and fire, Mr. Botsford went, to Portland where he established the F. L. Botsford Lumber Company, which supplied fir ties and bridge timbers to railloads being built throughout the West. When construction of the Western Pacific through the Feather River Canyon was delayed for want of ties and timbers, the Botsford company came to line's assistance. I{e supplied W.P. with materials and equipment for 59 years thereafter.

He was a Mason, a Shriner, a member of The Family, the Transportation Club and the Elks.

Mr. Botsford is survived by his widow, Lida, of 1450 Green Street, the family home; a son, Harry, two grandsons, and two brothers, David Sr., foundel of Botsford, Constantine and Garner advertising agency, and W. K. Botsford.

Henry Hess, 82, owner of Henry Hess Lumber Co. in San Rafael, died February 2, in his San Francisco apartment after a long illness. The Hess company yard on Third St. in San Rafael was signed over to the state exactly one year previous to his death to make way for improvements to Highway 101.

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Mr. Hess at one time owned 11 lumber yards in Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Marir! bounties. Belween 1958 and 1960, he sold all of them except the San Rafael yard. The company still owns a building at 696 Francisco Boulevard in San Rafael.

Mr. Hess started working in lumber yards in San Francisco as a young man and bought his first yards in Sebastopol and Guerneville in 1913. He married his wife' Annie Laurie, in 1911. She died in 1963.

A boating enthusiast, Hess belonged to the St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco. He was also a member of Oak Grove Masonic Lodge of Alameda, and Islam Temple of the Shrine, San Francisco.

He is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Frederick of San Francisco.

Lloyd Wells, prominent custom mill operator in Los Angeles' South Bay area, died February 20, following a short illness.

Mr, Wells was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, December 18, 1899 and moved to southern California with his family when he was nine years old. Following graduation from school he selected lumber remanufactuting as his profession and for the past four decades operated his millwork plant in the Hawthorne district.