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Don Swartzendruber, 75, retired mill sales representative for Davidson Industries, Mapleton, Or., died of lung cancer March 31 in Fullerton, Ca.

A native of Canton, Oh., he served as a paratrooper in World War II and jumped into Belgium afrer the Normandy invasion. He later was at the Battle of the Bulge.

He worked in sales for Rossman Lumber Co., Long Beach, Ca., before starting with Davidson Industries in 1965, where he remained until his 1991 retirement.

Mr. Swartzendruber was a member of the Los Anseles Hoo-Hoo Club.

Thomas Michael Johnson. 61. installation consultant and estimator for Able Building Supply, Moses Lake, Wa., died April l3 in Moses Lake.

He started the company's installation division in October 1999 and became a consultant and estimator last fall.

Terry Lee Morton, 43, owner of Morton Adler Mill, Inc., Willamina, Or., died of bone cancer March 5.

A native of McMinnville. Or.. he attended Walla Walla College and joined the family business in 1982. He became owner in 1994 after the death of his father, Garnet Morton.

His wife, Laura, will continue running the business.

Wendell Holmes Lawson, Jr., 69, retired distribution yard manager, Western American Forest Products, Rialto, Ca., died of lung cancer April 7.

A native of Portales, N.M., he worked for Fifth Avenue Lumber Co., Pomona, Ca., before starting with Tarter, Webster & Johnson in 1955, the forerunner of Western American Forest Products, where he was an order man, yard foreman, outside salesman, local manager and distribution yard manager, before his retirement in 1992.

HEAVY METAL: The slate roof of historic Santa Clara Church, Oxnard, Ca., was recently replaced by a metal roof from Custom-Bill Metals, The $3.5 million, 18,000 sq. ft. renovation, performed by Channel lslands Roofing, Inc., replicated the look of copper at a lorer cost, while preserving the historic appearance of the circa 1 904 structure.

George Martinelli, Jr.,74, owner of Ballinger Lumber Co., Oakland, Ca., and Cabinets, etc., Castro Valley, Ca., died April l8 in Dublin, Ca.

He was a veteran of the lumber and building products industries for more than 40 years.

Philip G. Bowman,79, retired owner of the nowdefunct P.H. Bowman Co., Seattle, Wa., died March 19.

A native of Tacoma, Wa., he served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and retired from the lumber industry in 1985.

Nardelli To Keynote Hardware Show

Robert L. Nardelli, the new president and ceo of Home Depot, will give the keynote address at this year's National Hardware Show & Building Products Exposition in Chicago, Il.

Held in conjunction with International Hardware Week. the 56th edition of the show will be held Aug. 12-14 at McCormick Place South.

Nardelli, 52, will deliver the keynote address at 8:00 a.m. Aug. 13.

More information on the National Hardware Show & Building Products Expo will be featured in the Expo Preview pull-out section of the July issue of The Merchant Magazine.