OBITUARIES

James Augustus Samuels, 78, a lumber estimator and resident of San Jose for the past.20 years, died of a healt attack April 3, in a San Jose hospital.

Mr. Samuels had been with Economy Lumber Company, Campbell, California, and prior to that was with the old Chase Lumber Comp,any in San Jose. He startcd his lumber career with American Sash & Door in Kansas City, Missouri, at the turn of the century.

He leaves his wife, Nellie L. Samuels of their San Jose home; a daughter, Cathryn Samuels, a teacher at Willow Glen High School; and a brother, Dr. Charles Floto of Kansas City.

A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Samuels was a member of the San Jose Lions Club and Kirkwood Lodge No. 484 F&AM of Kirkwood, Missouri.

Prentice Howard Miller, 51, ollice manager fol Chase Lumber Co. until it went out of business, died Mar.ch 30, in National City, California.

In more recent years, Mr. Milter had been serving as assistant credit manager for Tarter, Webster & Johnson's nlants at Santa Fe Springs and National City. He had spent most of his career with the American Forest Products organization.

Miller was a member of Hoo-Hoo, the National City Lions Club, Fr.aternity Lodge

No. 399, F&AM, of San Jose, and the San Jose Scottish Rite Bodies.

He leaves his wife, Ola Rae Miller', of their home at 13333 Fonseca Street, La Mirada, California.

Lyle S. Vincent, 66, prorninent Oakland Mason and owner-manager of Intelbay Lumber Co., Oakland, died after a brief hospitalization on April 10. Mr. Vincent was born in Sterling, Nebraska, and moved to Seattle, Washington, as ,a child. He entered the lumber business in the Northwest in 1919, and for many years operated his own wholesale business in Seattle.

He came to San Francisco in 1937 as a lepresentative of the old West Oregon Lumber Company. Entering the field of retailing in 1947, he acquired the interests of Twin Harbors Lumber Co. and Intelbay Lumber Company.

Mr. Vincent was a former member of the Alameda grand jury; a past president of the Oakland Kiwanis Club; a member of Indian Lodge No. 638, F&AM, Berkeley; a 32nd degree membcr of the Aahmes Temple of the Shrine; a member of the Scottish Rite Bodies, and a member of the Atheni,an-Nile Club.

He is survived by his widow, Emma, of 376 Orange St.; two sons, Robert and Peter, both of Seattle; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Tlekell of Casa Grande. Arizona: two sisters, Miss Ruth Vincent and Mrs. Helen Sedwick, both of Wilmington, Delaware; and L2 grandchildren.

Casimir Jackson Wood, Iongtime plesident of the Caspar Lumber Co. in Mendocino County and a plominent Masonic figure, died Aplil 8, at the age of 94, at his Hillsborough, California home.

A contempot'ary of A. B. Hammond, C. R. Johnson, Jim Tyson, C. E. DeCamp (his half-blother) and many other old timels, Cass Wood was a l'emal'kable man, and a thorough lumberman.

For better than 70 years, and right up until the day before his death, he went to work in his office of the Caspal Lumbel Company and its subsidiary, Redwood Manufacturers, concerns founded in 1851 by his grandfather Jacob Gleen Wood.

He was born in Caspar, Mendocino County, California, and inherited the presidency of the Caspar Lumber Company from his nationally famous mother', Abbie KrebsWilkins, who was a recognized leader in the lumber industry, and the first woman to be seated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Mr'. Wood also had the distinction of being one of the states leading masons, having been for' 50 years a member of the Scottish Rite, and having serwed as a past Potentate of Islam Temple of the Shrine. He was a member' of the San Francisco Olympic Club and the Menlo Country CIub.

Mr'. Wood is survived by his widorv, Irene; a daughter, Mrs. Abbie Fout, Palo Alto; a son, Casimir Jackson Wood, Jr., Atherton, and a sister, Mrs. Frances A. Harris of Pasadena. He also leaves three grandchildren, Stephanie, Daryl and Kimberley Wood, all of Atherton.