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Chqrles C. Squires

Charles C. Squires, 48, partner in the Richardson-Squires Lumber Company, Colton, Calif., died September 24 at lris home there,923 E. Olive St. He leaves his wife, Jenny, and his brother, Roy Squires, rvho was his partner in the retail lumber business and the manager of the yard.

Charles Squires was a native of Minnesota and a resident of Colton since 1949. He had spent most of his life in the Orient, going to Manila with his family in 1907 and to Shanghai in 1915. He came to the U. S. to study at Princeton and returned to Shanghai to the sporting goods business r'vith his father. He was captured by the Japanese early in 1942 and held prisoner until war's end in 1945, 'ivhen he resumed the sporting goods business until the move six years ago to California.

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Edwin J. Loney

Edwin John Loney died September 28. Mr. Loney was born in Falls City, Conn. He went to Los Angeles in 1946 from Oregon, where he had been engaged in the lumber business, to manage the Roseburg Lumber Company. He was with it for several years. Later he was active in the wholesale and retail lumber businesses in Southern California. Mr. Loney leaves his wife, Ona May Loney; a son; Maurice O'Connell, Oakland, Ore., one brother and two sisters. Funeral services were held in Inglewood, Calif.

Thomos H. Alzinq

Thomas Henry Alzina, 73, died September 10 in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was a native son and long-time employee of the Santa Cruz Lumber Company. Mr. Alzina was active in many civic and fraternal organizations and funeral services were conducted by officers of Santa Cruz Lodge 824, BPOE, September 14. He leaves his wife, Mary Gladys, a sister and a niece.

Mrs. Fronk Lounsberry

Mrs. Mildred Richardson Lounsberry, 94, widow of the late Frank Lounsberry, founder of the Lounsberry & Harris Lumber Company, died October 4 at her home, 409 S. Lucerne Blvd., in Los Angeles, where she had been a resident 54 years. She leaves her son, George Lounsberry, vice-president and secretary of the Los Angeles retail yards; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Lounsberry Keglev, and a great-grandchild, Gweneth Lounsberry Lundy.

R. Fenton Taylor, 65, traffic manager of the California Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles, and an employee of the company for more than 30 years, died September 23. He was a native of Jackson, Tenn., and went to Los Angeles in 1908. . . Edward W. Whittemore, 54, owner of the Atlas Paint & Varnish Co., Los Angeles, died September 24. IIe was born at San Quentin, Calif., and was active in Elks, Native Sons of the Golden West and numerous other fraternal and civic groups.

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Charles Kinter, 86, retired Modesto, Calif., hardware merchant and former Pennsylvania postmaster, died September 18 at his home in Monrovia, Calif. Emil Enderle, 41, native of Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer of the Frank X. Enderle, fnc., sheet metal company and partner in the Enderle Hardware Co., died suddenly October 2.

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