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Northeastern Retail Lumber Association's affiliates have been honoring Lumberpersons of the Year during their annual meetings.

Charlie Smith, Brockway-Smith, was feted by Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers Assn.; Tim Wiley, Wiley Bros., Eastern New York Lumber Dealers Assn.; Frank Quinn, Lamb & Ritchie, New Hampshire Retail Lumber Assn.; Frank Rankin, Rankins Inc., Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. of Maine; Sheldon Kahan, Interstate + Lakeland Lumber, Lumber Dealers Assn. of Connecticut; Dana Schnipper, JC Ryan EBCO, Long Island Lumber Assn.; Karen Page, H.G. Page & Sons, Mid-Hudson Lumber Dealers Assn., and Norman Greenberg, H. Greenburg & Son, Vermont Retail Lumber Dealers Assn.

Northern New York Lumber Dealers Assn. will honor Dennis Haggerty, Huttig Building Products, as Lumberperson of the Year and posthumously recognize Bill Carroll, Triple A Building Center with the 2011 Industry Excellence Award during its Nov. 16 annual meeting at Gran View, Ogdensburg.

Eastern New York Lumber Dealers Assn. holds its annual holiday trade show Dec. 6 in Saratoga Springs.

Northwestern Lumber Association elected Wayne Briggs, Crane Johnson Lumber, Fargo, N.D., as its new chairman of the board.

Bob Egan, Lampert Yards, St. Paul, Mn., is new lst vice chair; Jeff Reinhardt, Interstate Building Supply, Cannon Falls, Mn., 2nd vice chair; Jeff Gallagher, Larchwood True Value Lumber, Larchwood, Ia., treasurer; Paula Siewert, Northwestern Lumber Association, secretary, and Larry Provance, Arrow Building Center, Chaddron, Ne., chairman at large.

They are joined on the board by directors Dale Housh, Lockridge Inc., Promise City, Ia.; Ed Haver, Haver Lumber Co., Guthrie Center, Ia.; Daryl Lundberg, Daryl Northwoods Lumber Co., Blackduck, Mn.; Bryan Jensen, Central Valley Ag, Elgin, Ne.; Wayne Meester, Watertown Cashway Lumber, Watertown, S.D.; Bruce Braaksma, Royal Lumber Yards, Friesland, Wi.; Bob Barth, Sav-Rite Building Center, Neillsville, Wi., and William Wood, Fennimore Lumber Co.. Fennimore. Wi.

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Lumber Association of Texas has scheduled its Louisiana Gathering for Dec.2 at Tommy's Fine Cuisine, New Orleans.

Florida Building Material Association handed out awards at its recent Gulf Atlantic Building Products Expo.

U.S. Lumber won the Ken Lipman Associate of the Year Award: Dan

Driggers, Huttig Building Supply, the Leslie Thaxton Sales Excellence

Award, and Carman Miller, RoMac Lumber & Supply, Pinnacle Outstanding Retail Salesperson Award.

New Jersey Building Material Dealers Association stages its annual meeting Nov. l6 in East Brunswick.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association kicks off its annual holiday party Dec. 2 at Rocky's in Bricktown.

Joseph D. "Joe" Elder Jr., 65, owner and president of Elder Wood Preserving Co., Mansura, La., died of a heart attack Oct. 9.

He started his treating plant in January 1911. ln 2005, he acquired Richard Landry Lumber Sales, Alexandria, La., making it a division of Elder Wood Preserving.

Among the honors he collected over the years were the Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association's Ned Ball Award in 2000, the state's 2004 Lantern Award for Forest Products. and numerous awards for his philanthropic efforts.

Linton Nathaniel Tibbetts, 88, longtime owner of Cox Lumber, St. Petersburg, Fl., died Oct. 6 in St. Petersburg.

Leaving the Cayman Islands at age l'7, he bought in 1949 rhe st. Petersburg yard he would eventually expand to 31 locations across Florida. He sold the chain to Home Depot in 2006, retaining his Caymans export business. In 2009, he opened two yards under the Tibbetts Lumber name and later added two more locations.

Donnie E.C. Bryant, 89, cofounder of John E. Bryant & Sons Lumber, Batesville, Ar., died Aug.21 and his brother and partner, R. Hail Bryant, 83, died Sept. 20.

The brothers worked for their father's company, Bryant Lumber, before becoming co-owners in 1956, when it was renamed Bryant & Sons. It spun off another company, North Arkansas Cash Lumber, in 1965.

Shirl W. Headlee, 90, retired cofounder and owner of Wayne Lumber Co., Waynesburg, Pa., died Sept. 1.

A U.S. Army Air Corps pilot during World War II, he retired in 1982.

Harvey Smith Holmes Sr., 88, prolific South Carolina LBM entrepreneur, died Oct. 7 in Johnston, S.C.

Among the businesses he owned and headed were Holmes Lumber, Holmes Timber, and Johnston Chip Mill. Johnston. and Forest Crown Planer Mill, Aiken.

In 2008, he was named 2008 Forest Landowner of the Year by the Saluda County Forestry Association.

James Kanne, 87, Iowa lumberman, died Oct. 6 in Rochester, Mn.

A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, joined Green Bay Lumber, Carroll, Ia., in the early 1950s. In 1957, he launched Kanne Lumber & Supply, Canoll, before spending 20 years as a broker for Roberts & Dybdahl.

Johnny Frederick "J. Fred" Muller Jr., 78, president of JFM International and L&M Lumber, Willis, Tx., died Aug. 31.

He began his 58-year lumber career after graduating from Texas A&M University in 1953.

Christopher Powell "Chris" Lange, 40, was discovered dead Oct. 4 at the front door of his shuttered O.E. Woods Lumber, St. Joseph, Mo.

Cause of death is under investigation. No foul play is suspected. He closed his business several years ago.

Irvin Schaffer.98. longtime operator of Metropolis Builders Supply, Metropolis,Il., died Sept. 25.

After serving in the Army Medical Corps as a staff sergeant during World War II, he formed the company with his brother-in-law, Roy Arensman.

Pamela K. McCarter, 58, coowner of Waugh's True Value Hardware, Harrisville, N.Y., died Oct. 7.

She operated the store with her husband, Lonnie.

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