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4733 Arcola Ave. there. She was born in Los Angeles. In addition to her husband, the popular lumber dealer whose legion of friends share in his great loss, Mrs. Blanchard leaves a son, Warren, and a daughter, Mrs. Joan Redford Mrs. Llllle parr (Hazel) Johnson, 60, one of the most popular women in the Southern California lumber industry and a beloved, respected office employee of Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Downey, died suddenly November 2 with a respiratory condition just after returning home from her work. She had been in the industry for 30 years and left the stamp of her warm personality in every office she graced. She started with a hardwood company in Pomona, was the late W. E. Cooper's secretary for several years, and had worked for penberthy Lumber Co., Western Hardwood Lumber Co., !.ern Trucking and Signal Trucking, was Joe Terrill's secretary and bookkeeper at Lerrett Lumber Co., and was last at Simmons, where her co-workers praised her sweet disposition. She leaves her husband Carl of the home at 956 W. Laurel St., Compton, and a brother Howard Mr€. Alte V. Houghton, wife of Edward S. Houghton, who has been associated with the wholesale lumber industry for more than b0 years, died November 23. Besides her husband of the home at 2g4O W. Broadway, Eagle Rock, she leaves two sons and three daugh_ ters, 12 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She was active in Eastern Star and other orders percy M. Barr, 68, died August 27 in his sleep from a heart attack. He was professor of Forestry at the University of California, Berkeley, and widely known among the West's industrial foresters and lumber producers. He had been an active teaching and research forester up to the day of his death and he started one of the first courses in industrial forestry. A distinguished ofrcer and aviator in both world wars, Dr. Barr had served Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. and, as a colonel, was awarded numerous decorations of hon_ or. He leaves his wife, two daughters, four sons and two grand_ children. Memorial services were held in Berkeley, September g.

Gelotex Appoints V"r nr"a"rc,fforris

The Celotex Corporation has appointed Van Arsdale_Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, as one of the distributors of Celotex hardboard products, reports H. O. pfennig of the Los Angeles district office.

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