OBITUARIES

Art J. Hogan, former owner of Art Hogan Lumber Co., 1701 Galvez Ave., San Francisco, suffered afatal fall at the apartment of his son on February 20. Mr. Hogan, who was 5?, had been living in Portland in recent months and had just arrived in San Francisco a day earlier.

A native of Canada, Mr. Hogan for years owned and operated Art Hogan Lumber Co., a retail lumber operation originally located on Bayshore Blvd., in San Francisco, and later at the Galvez Ave. address. The business was discontinued a year ago at which time Mr. Hogan moved to Portland with his wife and two younger daughters.

He leaves his widow, Margaret, of their Portland home; four daughters, Helen and Anne Hogan of Portland, and Margaret Mary and Irene Hogan of San Franciscol and a son, Michael Hogan of San Francisco.

R. M. "Bob" Ingram, widely known Aberdeen, Washington, lumberman died March 6. Born in Waitsburg, Washington on July 29, 1898, Ingram was president of the E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Company and had been active in lumber association work for many yeaTs.

He was the past president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

He was also active in the Harbor Plywood Association, Blagen Timber Company at Hoquiam, Washington, and Lumber Supplies, Inc., of Aberdeen. He served in the U.S. Naw in both World War I and IL

Mr. Ingram is survived by his widow' Catherine, and three sons, Robert, Ernest, and James.

Richard Edward Sewar{ pioneer western lumberman whose career spanned almost half a century, died February 5. He was 72.

A native of Exeter, New Hampshire' "Eddie" Seward was a graduate of Dartmouth College. He began his lumber career shortly after graduation in 1916 when he came West to take a job at a lumber yard in Bridal Falls, Ore., which was owned by the father of a college fraternity brother.

He enlisted in the Army when World War I broke out, returaing to lumber business in 1921 as a salesman with Art Twohey in Los Angeles. In 1925, he was named southern California representative for the Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co., a position he held until the company was bought out and liquidated by Georgia-Pacific in 1950.

Mr. Seward then joined the sales staff at Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, Calif., where he was employed for 10 years. He was later associated with Ray Van Ide in wholesale sales in Pasadena for several years before his retirement in 1966.

Seward was also a part owner and director of Lumber & Builders' Supply in Solano Beach, Calif. for over 20 years.

Mr. Seward leaves his widow Constance Mitchell Seward of Pasadena; a daughter, Janet Kettenhofen of Northridge; two granddaughters, and two brothers, James Seward of Exeter. N.H. and William A. Seward of Stoneham, Mass.

Brice Stokes, owner of Crestridge Lumber, Inc., Los Gatos, died February 19 at Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara while undergoing major surgery to save his life. He was 68.

A native of Feradale, Califoraia, Mr. Stokes began his colorful career in lumber with Germain Lumber Company. He later was with Kent Lumber Company and C. T. O'Connor Lumber Co. in San Francisco prior to establishing his own business, Stokes Lumber Co., also located in San Francisco. A few years later, Ralph Steele became a partner and the business was

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Mr. Stokes later operated remanufacturing plants at Willits and Anderson in the po-"t-*a" years before joining the old Pa"ific Foresl Products Co. in Oakland' Prior to starting Crestridge Lumber, Inc. three years ago, he had been associated with Western- Lumber Company and Western Forest Products of S.F.

He is survived by his wife, Louise Stokes, of their Los Gatos home.

George W. Gibson, 64, of San Bernardino, died February 22.

A senior partner of Gibson Lumber Co' in San Bernardino, Victorville and Indio, he was also a sportsman and world traveler' He was a member of the Arrowhead Country Club, Elks Club, The California Club of Los Angeles, Wine and Food Society, San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce' California Indian and Arrowhead Skeet Club, National Skeet Shooting Assggiation, and Southern California Skeet Shooting Association and Phi Kappa Psi fraterntty.

Mr. Gibson is survived by his widow' Helen E., a brother, C. Dungan Gibson of San Bennardino and a sister, IIelen Gibson of San Bernardino.

Frank Deck, for the past seven years purchasing agent for Morgan-Davidson Lumber Co., Los Alamitos, Calif., died at his holqe on March 19, following a heart attack. He was 53.

Prior to his association with MorganDavidson, Mr. Deck was employed by Pine Ridge Lumber Co., and Paul Wright Lumber.

A native of Chico, Calif., he graduated from high school in Ventura, Calif. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marine.

He is survived by his widow, Marian; a son, James Lloyd; a daughter, Dawn Mary; his mother, Edythe Deck of Chico; a sister' Evelyne Garron of Chico, and a brother, Kenneth Deck of Norwalk, who is associated with Blue Star Lumber Co.

Self-reliant men and women won the West. Now the West, together with the rest of the America that we cherish, is being lost by men and women who look to the government to do for them that which they shou ld be doing for themselves.