OBITUARIES

Frank W. Bishop, a longtime figure in the lumber business, died November 4th.

He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He began work with the Koonatz Lumber Company, Winnepeg, Canada. Upon coming to California he went to work for the W. J. Bettingen Lumber Company, Pasadena. Since 1920 when he went to work for the San Pedro Lumber Company, and for the past 43 years, he worked constantly for McKee Family-owned lumber yards. He started in their 'Wilmington yard as an Estimator, rose to bookkeeper and finally became Controller. IIe was a director and Treasurer of the San Pedro Lumber Company and thereafter Director and Controller of Forest Lumber Company, Imperial Valley Lumber Co. and Calexico Building Supply Co.

He is survived by his widow, Anna R. Bishop; a son, Richard J. Bishop; and a sister, and four grandchildren.

Asa E. Fickling, 86, Long Beach's 1933 "Earthquake Mayor," died November 14, 1963.

Fickling was mayor in 1930-33.

He founded Fickling Lumber Co., was president of the Southern California Lumber Dealers for three terms and on the SCLD board 36 years.

The years of Fickling's administration were hard ones for the city-the years of depression and unemployment. Then came the disastrous earthquake of March 10, 1933, and Fickling found himself chief executive of a city building itself up from rubble.

At various times in his long business career in Long Beach, he taught school, studied law, and served as a justice of the peace, and was involved in more than a half-dozen business ventures.

Surviving are his widow, Marguerite; daughter, Miss Doris Fickling; sons, D. Forest, Dorian; stepsons, Harold Mickley, Ralph Johnson; brothers, William, Jacob; ssiters, Mrs. Deela Brown, Mrs. Ava Miller; five chandchildren.

William Martyn Mason, president of B&M Lumber Company and a partner in Susanville Lumber, Inc., died in Sacramento; September 10, after a lengthy illness. Mr. Mason was 66,

A native of Sacramento, Mr. Mason spent many successful years as a logging equipment salesman for Allis-Chalmers in Sacramento. During 1960, he established B&M Lumber Companq, a wholesale lumber concern, with Bob Nikkel. In 1966, the partnership was dissolved, Mason continuing B&M Lumber Company, and Nikkel establishing a new wholesale firm under his own name.

Although he sufrered a never-ending battle against ill health, Mr. Mason built B&M Lumber Company into one of the major wholesale firms in northern California, active especially in the Sierra Region. His many friends will long remember the conrage he displayed in the face of failing health.

Mrs. Mason leaves his wife, Faye, of their Sacramento home; and two sons, Robert Mason of Sacramento, and Richard Mason of Long Valley, California.

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