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Besides their mother, wives, and children, Dean and Ernest Johnson are survived by a younger brother, Robert, who has not lreen active with the Lumber Corporation for many years, being engaged in the home building business elsewhere.

The Johnson lumber history is interesting. Their father, the late (. D. Johnson, who died in Portland in 1940, was engaged in the Southern Pine lumber business for many years before coming West. He was a partner in the FrostJohnson Lumber Company, of St. Louis and Shreveport, a concern that operated a big string of sawmills for decades. Mr. Johnson sold his interest to Mr. Frost and moved to Portland in 1922, bringing with him his wife and three sons. He immediately bought a giant sawmill which the Government had built at Toledo, on the coast of Oregon,. for the purpose of manufacturing airplane spruce in great volume. It had never been completed when the war ended. Mr. Johrrson bought it, completed it, and went to cutting lumber. The mill is a very large one, cutting 400,000 feet of lumber in 8 hours, and employing an army of men in mill and woods.

Dean and Ernest Johnson were both put to work in the Toledo nrill, learning the lumber making business at first hand. As the years went by Dean remained in the manufacturing end, and Ernest took over the sales end at portland. When the father died in 1940, Dean was elected presi- dent, and stepped right into his father's shoes.

The two brothers have built well, and made a great success, financially and otherwise, of their lumbering. Since their father died they have expended large sums of money improving the harbor facilities at nearby Yaquina Bay, so that large ocean ships can load lumber there. Behind the big mill at Toledo there is timber that guarantees it a long life. 'fhe brothers took an active interest in all movements for the good of the lumber industry in the Northwest.

They were fine lumbermen and fine citizens, and their loss will be keenly felt wherever 'Western lumber manufacturers gather.

R. P. "Bob" Richardson, u'ho dropped dead while acting as one of Dean Johnson's pallbearers, was a man of considerable distinction. He was resident manager at Toledo, operating mills and logging for the corporation, and had been there with this same concern since 1925. He is highly thought of iri the Pacific Northwest as a production man of rare ability. He was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1888, was in the lumber business temporarily in his early youth in Michigan, before moving to the Pacific Coast. During World W'ar One he was Dban Johnson's captain in the 20th Engineers, serving in France. He is survived by his wife.

The lumber history of the nation has previously known no such sudden and shocking tragedy as that of the Johnson brothers' and their associates.

The Roseburg Lumber Comparry, Dillard, Oregon, is building a plywood plant adjacent to its mill.

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