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Winfree Retires 'Tempororilyt os Dqnt & Russell Closes S.F. Offices

With the closing of the Dant & I{ussell Sales Co. lumber division offices in San Francisco

September 15, Henry Winfree

(left) announces his ten.rporary retirement fronl the lun.rber bttsiness, efiective August 31. It is "temporary" becanse, although Henry originally intended to leave the lumber business completely behind, he is already beginning to shorv signs of weakening.

"Margaret and I are planning to spend a fen' rveeks at the lake and maybe a month or so down south visiting relatives, in addition to seeing our son Don in Modesto and daughter Beverly in Sacramento; then r've'll see," he confided. And it's easy to see r,vhy he's having trouble shaking the "sawdust trail," a trail that he has been follor,ving for over 30 years.

Winfree, a native of Kentucky, has resided in the San Francisco Bay area since he rvas a boy. Like so many young men in the early 190Os, his hrst love rvas heavy machinery and, more specifically, the railroad. After 11 years with both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, he was induced to leave railroading in 1927 for a position as traffic manager for Redwood Manufacturing Co. at Pittsburg. Tn 1938. however. his interest in lumber had increased to the point that he decided to "hit the road" for Redwood Manufacturing Co. as its San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley representative.

Winfree remained u.ith that firm until April 1941, at which tirne he joined Seth Butler at the San Francisco sales office of Dant & Russell, Inc., and continuecl to travel the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valley for it. In 1946, Winfree u'as sent to Oroville by Dant & Russell to organize and operate a distribution yard. During this period, he also became a retailer with the purchase of Clark Lumber Company in Modesto, a firm he later sold to Leonard Coffee of that city.

Winfree later returned to his Valley territory and, since building a new home in Walnut Creek in 1950, had been headquartered at the Dant & Russell Sales Co. office in San Francisco.

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