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the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. and the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California.

Besides his wife, of the home at 1430 Overlook Drive, Glenview, Ill., he leaves a son, Philip, a freshman at Northwestern university; a daughter, Mrs. David Ellis, Wauconda. I11. : his mother of Golf. Ill. : brothers Samuel G. of Niles, Mich., and Thomas of Milwaukee, and three grandchildren.

R.ussell lYl. CASTELL

Russell M. Castell, 53, formerly of Whittier, Calif. died recently at Scottsdale, Arizona, according to word just received by former Los Angeles co-workers. Funeral services were conducted at Phoenix. Mr. Castell went to Whittier with his family in 1924 and his father, the late A. J. Castell, was manager and part owner of the California Lumber Co. in Montebello. Russ graduated from Whittier High school and married the former Alice Myers, daughter of Whittier pioneers who founded the Myers department store there. After making a good na-e in the Southern California lumber industry, Russ Castell went to Scottsdale to enter business. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter and a son, both of the home in Phoenix;his mother of Palos Verdes and Whittier, a sister and a brother.

George S. HTELMS

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George S.

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Helms, 50, San Rafael lumber broker, died September 14 in a local hospital after being hospitalized since September 6. He was a resident of Marin county the past six years and at one time operated the Helms Lumber Company in San Francisco. More recently, with Frank Brown, he operated the Helms-Brown Lumber Co., also of San Francisco. Mr. Helms, who was a native of Billings, Montana, had spent his entire lifetime in lumber. Ffe leaves his wife, Mariann, of the home at 224 Laurel Place, San Rafael, and daughters, Joan, 15 and Susan, 7. Funeral services were held September 16 in a San Francisco mortuary chapel.

"Pele" E. HANSEN

"Pete" E. Hansen, 69, veteran wholesale lumberman formerly of Eugene and Portland, Oregon, died September 12 at the Methodist hospital in Houston, Texas, following a serious heart operation, according to word kindly received from friends at the H &H Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Mr. Ffansen's body was returned for burial in the family plot at Riverside, Calif. He leaves a brother, Duff Hansen, of