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Rex GIARK

Rex A. Clark, one of the bestknown men in the Southern California lumber industrv. died unexpectedly early in thl morning hours of October 8 of a heart ailment at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where he had been taken October 4. He had been ill only since September 26, when he left his office at Sun Lumber Company in San Pedro early to go home and rest. His age was 54.

Rex Clark started his lumber career at 2l on the docks of the Stout Lumber Co. in North Bend,

Oregon, going two years later to the Citizens Mill & Lumber Co. at Oxnard, Calif., wds later purchased from the Stout interests by which Homer

Burnaby. In l9B Mr. Clark joined Consolidated Lumber Co. at Wilmington as a salesman and rapidly rose to retail salesmanager, general salesmanager, assiitant general manager and then general manager of this progreisive lumber concern. In September of 1955 he climaxed h-is brilliant lumber career by- returning to the Burnaby employ as general manager of the Sun Lumber Company, San pldro."

The gentlemanly Rex Clark, on-e of the wisest heads in the industry, had been in recent months a tower of strength to the business as chairman of the Lumber Grades co-mmittee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association and, in the words of the association's executive vicepresident, Orrie W. Hamilton, on the day of Rex Clark,s death, "Rex did more than any other one man to promote the use of lumber grades in our industry." He had'worked incessantly and unselfishly for more tlian three years between his home base and the Pacific Northwest and Wash- ington, D. C., to promote the use of grades which were finally effective on March 15, 1956, and he was still at it on his death last week. Known to almost everv lumber dealer and lumberman in the industry, Rex Cla-rk was a beloved figure and popular speaker at practically every convention and conference of the SCRLA.

-He leaves his wife and two daughters, one of the home and one with her huJband with the armed forces in Korea. Funeral services were held October 10 in San Pedro.

Chqrles l. O'NEIL

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Charles I. O'Neil, 88, a 49-year resident and lumber dealer of Pomona. Calif.. died there September 28. He was well known in the community also for his youth work and club activ_ity. He leaves his wife Kathryn, two sons of Montana and two daughters in Pomona.

Miss Louise P. GANAHT

Miss Louise P. Ganahl, a lifelong resident of Los Angeles and the daughter of the pioneer lumber dealer there, died October 51t the age of 83 in a rest home in Fullerton. She lived at 316 W. Avenue 52. She leaves three brothers, Ernest, an ownei of the Ernest Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim; Vincent and G. A. Ganahl, and three sisters, Mrs. Rose Donovan, Mrs. Agnes Hoover and Mrs. Florence Sharp. The Rosary was recited at an Anaheim mortuary, with Requiem Mass celebrated and interment at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.

In Memoriom

Axel Larsson, 88, who served as traffic consultant to the California Redwood Association for more than 4O years, died September 16. Funeral services were held in Alameda, September 18 . . . George R. Daley, 73, a San Diego county farm boy who built one of the biggest contracting and ranching empires in the Southland, died October 1 on his 14,000acre Jamul Ranch at Jamul, Calif., of a heart ailment. Born north of Escondido, he began business in San Diego 50 years ago with freight wagons that hauled building materials to stores and projects in rural areas Harry Ferguson Hall, 60, building contractor of Artesia, died there September 20 Bernard R. Maybeck, veteran Bay area architect who designed the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition and also founded the department of architecture at the University of California, died in Berkeley, October 3, at the age of 95.

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