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John C. Hampton, 80, chairman of the board and former c.e.o. of Hampton Affiliates, Portland, Or., died March 15 after a year-long battle with cancer.

Mr. Hampton graduated from the University of Washington and served in the U.S. Navy. In 1950, he began working the swing shift at the Willamina mill owned by his father. Twenty years later, he became c.e.o. and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1995, after which he served as chairman.

Inspired by the innovative lumber producers he visited in Scandinavia and New Zealand, he became a U.S. pioneer of high-tech mills.

Ralph J. "Oley" Olson, 84, founder of Santa Fe Lumber & Millwork, Santa Fe, N.M., died March 13 in Texarkana, Tx.

An Army officer during World War II, he began his career in 1950 as a lumber salesman with Edward Hines Lumber, Portland, Or., working his way to executive v.p. Among his achievements were shipping yellow pine framing lumber from southern sawmills to Chicago via barge and marketing straight 2x4 studs called Red Arrowsbecause the ends were painted red and sealed with waxfrom a lodgepole pine mill in St. Anthony, Id.

In the early 1970s, he retired to Santa Fe, where he saw a need for a distribution yard and in 1978 opened Santa Fe Lumber to handle Andersen windows and Peachtree doors. A few years later, he sold the business to Hines and it was relocated to Albuquerque. Hines later sold the operation to Huttig Building Products.

In 1983, Mr. Olson co-founded Turkey Creek Co., Texarkana, Tx., partly as a southern yellow pine tree farm.

Thomas Girard, 54, co-owner of Banks Lumber Co., Banks. Or.. died Feb.27 in Hillsboro. Or.

Mr. Girard had worked in the family-owned business for 40 years, which was founded in 1961. In the early 1990s, he and his brother took over management of the company.

Herschell Larrick, 85, former owner of Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Solana Beach, Ca., died Feb. 19 in Borrego Springs, Ca.

As an Army Air Forces pilot during World War II, Mr. Larrick flew six hours of missions on D-Day and was awarded an Air Medal, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and two Purple Hearts. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War, as a pilot with the Air Force.

After World War II, he joined Lumber & Supply, which was founded by his father tn 1923. In 1963, he took over as president after his father became ill. Twenty years later, he sold the property and it became an Amtrak train station.

Frank Zito, 55, chief estimator and lumber buyer for Pine Cone Lumber Co., Sunnyvale, Ca., died Jan. 2'7 after a lengthy illness.

Before moving to California in 1976, NIr. Zito worked in mills in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He joined Hubbard & Johnson in 1977 and worked there until he ioined Pine Cone in 1982.

Jesse Russel Wallace, 92, who retired from Essex Lumber Co., Quincy, Ca., died March 18 in Quincy.

During his career, Mr. Wallace worked at Mason & Hager Lumber Co., Essex Lumber Co., and Holstrom Lumber Co. After retiring from Essex, he helped contruct the first co-generation plant for Sierra Pacific Industries.

Afexander Quaglino, 74, retired owner of Quaglino True Value Hardware, San Luis Obispo, Ca., died March 8 in San Luis Obispo.

Mr. Quaglino began his career with the family-owned County Roofing Service, which evolved into Quaglino Roofing and later expanded to include the hardware store.