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Ohiluary

John G. O'TIALLEY, SR.

John G. O'Malley, Sr., last of the founders of the O'Malley Lumber Company of Arizona, died September 14 at his Phoenix home at ihe age of 81. He had been in ill health for several years. Mr. O'Malley was chairman of the board of the Affiliated O'Malley Companies, which originated in Phoenix in 1908 with a single -retail lumberyard. The company today comprises 22 separate corporations dealing in ietail and wholesale lumber, many allied building materials, investments, real estate, and operating in three states'

The senior O'Malley leaves his wife, Mary C', of the home at 2222 N. Alvarado;-three sons: James C., president of the National Retail Lumbers Dealers Assn. and vice-president of the O'Malley companies, handling the retail yards.; John G., Ir., vice-president of the companies and general malagei of MallCo Distributors, and Robert E., secretaryof the c6mpanies and active in management of the El Paso, Texas, branch; nine grandchildren; a sister, Nora O'Malley, _o_f Colorado Springs, Colo., and four nephews: Edward V. O'Malley, Iidwird V. O'Malley, Jr., Thomas E. O'Malley and Charles F. O'Mall.yall of whom are active in the O'Malley lumber and materials companieS.

John G. O'Malley, Sr., was born in St. Louis, Mo., and went to Phoenix, Arizona,50 years ago from Lamar, Colo., where he had operated the first family lumber yard, started in the late 1800i. He was one of four sons of the first John G. O'Malley and his brothers Edward and Charles soon joined John in Phoenix, where he had purchased the assets bt tn. -DeMund Lumber Co., while biother James stayed behind to operate the Colorado yard. The first of the fourth generation bf Lumber O'Malleys has already started in the business at Phoenix.

The founder of the tradition of the O'Malleys of Arizona first expressed his business principles man;r years ago. Said John G. O'Malley, Sr.: "Always be conservative in. your irabits and in your business dealings. By hard work and sober living, you will always get your fair share of the available business."

Mr. O'Malley was a founder and one-time president of the Arizona Building and Loan Assn., a charter member of the Phoenix Rotary, holder of a life membership in the Arizona Club, and past president of the Phoenix Country Club. Catholic funeral services were held September 16 under direction of Whitney and Murphy Funeral Home, and remembrances in Mr. O'Malley's name were directed to Saint Joseph's hospital in Phoenix.

R. Stonley DOttAR.

R. Stanley Dollar, 78, president of the Dollar Steamship Line and member of the prominent Robert Dollar Company lumber and affiliated industries, died September 24 in his suite at the Drake hotel, New York City. He was stricken by an apparent heart attack as he was arising in the morning aira niJwite attended him in the several minutes before his death. Mr. Dollar was the son of the late Capt. Robert Dollarlumberman, founder of the shipping line and popularly believed to be the prototype of Peter B. Kyne's belovid "Cappy Ricks" stories. Stanley got his start in his father's offiies. Mr. Dollar also leaves two children, R. Stan-

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