OBITUARIES

Paul Y. "Bud" Allen, lumberman, died July 16, of a heart attack at his home in Eureka, California.

The popular Bud Allen had been in the lumber business for 18 years and at the time of his death was president of the Peavey Lumber Company, which he founded January 10, 1964. Mr. Allen was a B-29 pilot in World War II with extended service in the Pacific Theatre until the end of the war and was separated as a captain in 1946.

Bud entered the lumber business in Arcata, Calif., with the R. H. Emerson Co. as a pond man in 194?. He joined Tacoma Lumber Sales in 1948, and became an original partner of Pacific Fir Sales in 1960, with whom he was associated until he left to form his own company in 1964.

He was eonsidered one of the most respected pilots in the Pacific Northwest. He was a golfer at Baywood of some repute, considered a man with a swing that left much to be desired, but with a handicap, his partners will attest, seldom lost a buck.

Mr. Allen is survived by his widow, Mary, his children, Marilyn 20, a senior at the Univ. of California; Paul III, 18; Margaret, 15, and Celeste, 6.

Lester L. Goodman 65, a dominant figure in San Francisco's foreign trade, died August 3 in Tokyo, Japan, an apparent victim of a heart attack.

Mr. Goodman, chairman of the World Trade Center Authority, flew to Tokyo to be deco,rated for his contribution to trade and cultural relations between the United States and Japan. The high award, the Third Order of Sacred Treasure, bestowed in the name of Emperor Hirohito, was to have been presented at a ceremony the day following his death.

Stricken in his room at the Okura Hotel, Mr. Goodman died ten minutes after summoning a doctor.

He was chairman of Getz Bros. & Co., of San Francisco, a major U.S. exportimport firm, with which he had been associated for 43 years.

A native of Phoenix, he joined Getz Bros. in !922 af,ter graduation from Hastings College of the Law. He went to India that year and, until his return in 1939, was busy establishing branches of the firm throughout the Far East.

He became a director of Gelz Bros. in 1939, president in 1958, and board chairman three years ago.

He is survived by his wife, the former Esther Frankel, with whom he lived in a penthouse atop the Mark Hopkins lfotel.

Caspar llexberg, retired San Francisco lumber executive and a leader in Norwegian-American gtoups' died July 26' He was 71.

A native of Sorum, Norway, Mr. Hexberg came to San Francisco in 1906. He was associated with Acme Lumber Company and later with Union Lumber ComPanY, of which he was district sales manager until his retirement in 1962.

King Ilaakon II of Norway awarded him the St. Olaj's Medal for his work on behalf of Norwegian societies in the Bay Area.

Mr, Heiberg was a past president of the Paciflc Coast Norwegian Singing Society and a member of the Norwegian Club, Henrik Ibsen Lodge 7 of the Sons of Norway and Balder Lodge 393, Free and Accepted Order of Masons.

Mr. Hexberg is survived by his widow, Anna; a son, Russell; a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Labadie, also of San Francisco; four grandchildreir and three great-grandchildren.

Col. Francis Eugene Boyd, 75, a life-long lumberman, died July 27 in a Santa Barbara convalescent hospital.

He was born Dec. 22, 1889, in Butler, Mo., where his father had established the Boyd Lumber Co., a business he owned and operated until he sold it when he moved with his family in 1898 to Hemet, Calif. Later the family lived briefly in Redlands, before moving to Monrovia where a brother operated the Boyd Lumber Co.

IIe went to Santa Barbara in 1913 to join his brothers, Scott and Clyde in the Boyd Lumber and Mill Co. To gain more experience, he moved to Gustine in 1914 and set up the Builders Lumber Co. and acted as manager of the firm.

Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to France to establish and operate sawmill and logging operations for the Army.

Later he purchased the former Union Mill and Lumber Co. at 520 E. Montecito St,, and became its president and manager.

'When he sold his lumber company, Col. Boyd became manager of La Cumbre Golf and Country Club (1958-1961) and then joined the Saling Realty Co.

Mr. Boyd leaves his widow, Katherine; his daughter, Jeanne (Mrs. Roland) Groom; his son, Francis E. Boyd Jr.; and six grandchildren.

Joseph H. Kirk, active industry spokesman and head of Kirk Lumber and Building Material Co. at Santa Maria, died of a heart attack at his nearby Cambria home on August 7, al, tlre age of 71.

Born in San Franciseo, Mr. Kirk graduated from St. Ignatius College there and has been active in the retail building material business his entire life. He originally spent many years with the old S. P. Milling Co. retail chain and was general manager of that firm when he bought one of the firm's outlets at Santa Maria during 1947, and entered business on his own.

His interest in the retail industry's affairs led him to serve as the first president of the Lumber Merchants Association in 1940, again holding this office from 1950 to 7952, He had also served LMA in the capacity of vice-president, director, member of the executive committee and two full terms on the executive committee of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association.

Mr. Kirk leaves his son, Daniel J. Kirk, an attorney, and two daughters, Mrs. Louise Mull and Mrs. Mitzi Bettiga.