IN Memoriam James M. “Jim” Harris, 75, longtime manager of San Mateo Lumber Co., San Mateo, Ca., died April 25 in Burlingame, Ca. He spent 47 years with San Mateo Lumber until he retired three years ago. Wilfred Emil “Pete” Sylvester, 9 , retired owner of Pete’s Lumber Building Supply, Seaview, Wa., passed away April 15. At 18 he started working for Harris Lumber in Missouri and soon became yard foreman. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he moved to Salem, Or., and joined Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. He then spent 11 years managing its Opaco Lumber
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Co. subsidiary in Las Vegas, Nv. He returned to Oregon to wholesale windows, then managed Boise Cascade’s Bestway Building Center in Longview, Wa. Pete eventually purchased his own lumberyard and operated it with his wife and five children for 16 years. Jeff Lynn, Southern California lumber salesman, died March 5. Through the 1990s, he worked for Oregon Canadian Forest Products of California, Orange, Ca. Adelbert K. “Doug” Charles Jr., 0, co-owner of Del Lumber Co., Elyria, Ca., died April 26 in Mission Viejo, Ca., after a prolonged illness. He graduated from Yale University in 1962, earned his MBA from Columbia University, and his doctorate from Yale
Law School, then practiced law in New York. He and his family also owned and operated Del Lumber for over 45 years. Charles William “Chuck” Bush, 9 , founder of Fairway Lumber Co., Garden Grove, Ca., died April 12 in Soquel, Ca. After serving in the Marines during World War II, he earned an economics degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Robert Tayler “Rob” Haring, 68, co-owner of Laminated Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca., died of leukemia April 27. After working for the Forestry Service, he started the construction materials brokerage with his brother, Tom Haring, and father, Clint Haring.
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