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TRAI{I( HAROII{G BURIIABY

Frank Harding Burnaby, 82, pioneer Beverly Hills lumberman and u/ell known civic leader, died May 22 at his Foothill Road home after a lengthy illness.

Mr. Burnaby was chairman of the board of Sun Lumber Company, which he founded 41 years ago in what is now the Beverly Hills civic center. His company serviced and built many of the homes which still stand in the Beverly Hills area. Sun now has eleven operations in Sout}rern California and 500 employees.

He was born in Nova Scotia in 1883 and lived in California 44 years. He was past president of the Beverly Hills Rotary Club, past president of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Los Angeles Country Club and the Annandale Country Club, He was past president of two lumber industry organizations, the Chicago Lumber

Association and the Lumber Association of Southera California.

Mr. Burnaby was a member of the Beverly Hills city council from 1934 to 1937.

Survivors include his widow, Lillian; a son, Homer Burnaby; brother, Laurie and sister, Fay Burroughs; also four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

ARIHUR DEE MOBLEY

Arthur Dee Mobley, long-time millworker and frame builder and employee of E-Z Glide, Inc., El Monte, died suddenly when he suffered a heart attack while driving from his home in Arcadia to Las Vegas, recently. He was 52.

Mr. Mobley also had been associated with C & M Millwork, Arcadia, until he relocated two-and-a-half years ago. He was a member of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union f2288.

Born in Texas, Mr. Mobley served four years in the European Theatre of war during \Morld War II. He held the rank of sergeant when he was honorably discharged from service.

He is survived by his widow, Charlene.

CATIFORNIA LUI$BER'YTERCHANT tnAlil( N. CIBBS

Frank N. Gibbs, Anaheim church and civic leader and owner of Gibbs Lumber Company, died recently in Los Angeles. Ife was 86.

Mr. Gibbs had resided in Anaheim since 1911, and operated the Gibbs Lumber Company for more than 59 years, retiring in 1962. He served as city councilman from 1920 to 1924, was a charter member of the Anaheim Kiwanis Club and was a 50-year member of Masonic Lod.ge 5207. Mr. Gibbs also served the YMCA board.

First Presbyterian Church of Anaheim, to honor his half-century of service, named a new fellowship hall after him. Mr. Gibbs had served as an elder in the church for 50 years.

Surviving Mr. Gibbs is his son, Oscar L. of Laguna Beach; and two daughters, Mrs. Carollm A. Chamber of Whittier and Mrs. Ellen E. Crouch of New Jersey. He leaves his sister, Miss Laura Gibbs of San Gabriel and a brother, Wilson O, Gibbs of PaIm Springs.

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