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MRS. ROSE L. TAENZER, 91, vice-president of the American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, died May 9 at her home there. She was the n'rother of C. Roberi Taenzer. president, and E. Nlilton Taenzer, vice-president and ...r"tary-treasurer, of the firm. Mrs. Taenzlr. formerlv of paducah and Nlemphis, was the widow of tr. E. iaenter, Mem_phis lumberman who operated the Taenzer-Thompson Hardwood Co., the E. E.,Taenzer & Co., and the DarhellTaenzer Lumber Co. there before going to Los Angeles in l9I4 to found the American Hardwood Co. togeth"er with his two sons, C. Robert and E. Milton, who Juctessfully operate the business today. X4rs. Taenzer also leaves four grand-daughters and eight great-grandchildren. Burial was in F'orest Lawn Nlemorial Park, Glendale MRS.

MAUDE S. BLANCHARD, 85, died May 17. She was a resident of Burbank and the widow of W. A. Blanchard.

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former Burbank mayor and founder of a lurnber company. She leaves a sor,,_Judson Blanchard, a daughter ancl giu"i- daughter FRANK R. WRIGHT, 8O,-retired nalional inspector for the National Hardwood Lumber Association. died April 9 in Redondo Beach, Calif. He'had worked for the NHLA since 1937 and retired on Dension in 1951 . .

CHARLES L. GLEASON, 67, president of the Frank Purcell Walnut Co., Kansas City: I(ansas, died Aprtl 22 after a brief illness. He was widelv known in hardwood Iumber circles and served on the dules committee of tl.re NHLA. Burial was in Independence, Kansas, where he was born LEO T. TRUMAN, 49, died May 19 in Santa Barbara, C,alif., where he was an executive with a building materials firm and once headed the Building Contractori association BERT E. COFFMAN,78, retired hardware store owner, died NIay 24 in Montebello, Calif., where l-re opeued the town's first hardware store in 1908. lIe was also the last surviving member of the town's first city council.