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Fred A. Chcpin

Fred A. Chapin, well known Southern California retail lumberman, passed away at his home in San Bernardino on September 19, following an illness of several months. He was 59 years of age.

He established the Fred A. Chapin Lumber Co. in San Bernardino in 7926. Mr. Chapin was a native of Vinton, Iowa, and had lived in California for thirty-eight years.

Mr. Chapin was elected councilman of San Bernardino's fourth ward on December 5, 1914, in a special election to fill a vacancy, and the following April he was unopposed in the primaries and was re-elected for a four-year term.

Ife was a director of the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce, a member of the San Bernardino lodge of Masons, the Al Malakiah Shrine, and the Lions Club.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary I{. Chapin; a son, Tommy, manager of the lumber company and who will continue operating the business; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Shorett and Mrs. Katherine Cox, both of San Bernardino; a brother, Frank Chapin of Seattle ; a sister, Mrs. Clifford Aldeman of Vinton, and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held on September 20 in San Bernardino.

Rcimond I. Lane

Raimond L Lane, president of Ray Lane Plyn'ood, Los Angeles, passed away suddenly in his office on September 12 from a heart attack. He was 54 years of age.

Mr. Lane was with Lounsberry & Harris at their Hollvwood yard for twenty-seven years, and held the position of sales manag'er when he resigned 1n 1946 to go in business for himself. He l,vas widely known in the Los Angeles lumber trade.

Surviving are his r,vidow, Mrs. Alice Lane, and a son, Robert Lane, who was associated with his father and who will carry on the business. Funeral services rvere held at Los Angeles on September 16.

B. H. Smith

B. H. Smith, sales representative, and an employee of the Long-Bell Lumber Company for fifty-three years, passed away in Sacramento, Calif., on September 13. He had been ill for some time, and was 83 years of age.

He was one of the first men employed by the late R. A. Long, founder of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, starting as assistant manager of the Pacific Coast Lumber ft Supply Co., a Long-Bell subsidiary, in Kansas Ciqy in t894.

In 1932, Mr. Smith traveled west to take over the sales in the Sacramento, Calif., territory, a post he held until his death. He was the second Long-Bell man to receive the SO-year service award, and a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Monticello in Longview, Wash., on March 15, 1944, commemorated his 50 years with Long-8e11.

Mr. Smith is survived by his wife, and a daughter in California, and Mrs. George Hopkins of Tacoma, Wash., and Lieut. Col. Dana E. Smith stationed with the Army in the Pacific, children of a previous marriage.

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