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Steve PEDREIT, Sr.

Steve Pedrett, Sr., 64, recently retired manager of Sterling Lumber Co., Red Bluff, Calif., died July 1. Prior to his retirement, the veteran dealer hacl been with the company's lineyard there nearly 25 vears. Mr. Pedrett leaves his wife

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and a son, Steve, Jr., who now manages the Red Bluff yard his father formerly headed.

Mrs. Mqe D. HEXBERG

Mrs. Mae D. Hexberg, 54, olr,ner and manager of the Hexberg Lumber Co., Los Angeles, died July 9-. She had been operating the retail yard since her husband was shot and killed in a holdup on the premises late in 1955. She lived at 5622 Sixth Ave. and leaves a daughter Victoria, a son Kris, three sisters and three brothers.

Wqlter Jqmes ZIESE

Walter James Ziese, 24, died of a lingering illness July 4 while on a fishing trip with his father, Fred J. Ziese, Sr., the well-known San Francisco lumberman. The boy suffered complications from a tumor operation 13 years ago but nevertheless lived a use{ul life in church and humanitarian works and his last wish was that his corneas be transplanted following his death, rvhich was successfully done. Besides his parents, young Ziese leaves two brothers aged 13 and 25.

In Memoriqm

John W. Cox, Jr., about 50, i,l,'as found shot to death in his office at the Cox Lumber Co., Goodyear, Ariz., June 19. Sheriff's deputies said the rvound was apparently self-inflicted as a result of alcoholic problems .Elzie C. Millikan, retired paint executive of the W. P. Fuller Co. since 1954, died June 29. He was a past president of the Los Angeles Paint Club. William J. Simpkin, 59, business agent for the AFL Teamsters Union in Los Angeles, died July 6. Stores in a downtown city block of Costa N{esa closed an hour July 13 for the funeral of Fred R. Finch, 88, pioneer builder knorvn as "the father of Costa Mesa" who died July 10. He u'as said to be responsible for the construction of virtually every building in the block, as well as many others in the city; he maintained an informal schedule of one new business building a year and just the day before his death he had been in consultation on a new building proposal for the city. Harold D. Jensen, 38, who had worked rvith his father, Hyrum Jensen, owner of the Eureka Lumber Co. there, until the sawmill burned down recently, and his young bride were found dead Julv l1 in his sporis car three miles south of Victorville, Calif.. in an apparent murdersuicide, according to sheriff's homicide detail. His ex-wife and small son live in Santa Rosa.