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Wayne C. Wilson, 92, retired owner of D.C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles,Ca.,died Nov. 22in

Fullerton, Ca.

Mr. Wilson graduated from Whittier College, Whittier, Ca., where he was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame. During World War II, he served as an officer in the Navy.

In 194'7 , he joined the family lumber business, which started as a lumber brokerage and evolved into a wholesale operating focusing on redwood and ponderosa pine products. He retired and closed the business in 1986.

Keith E. Chase, 82, retired coowner of Matheus Lumber Co.. Woodinville. Wa.. died Nov. 14 in Kirkland, Wa.

Mr. Chase began working at

Matheus in 195l.In 1964, he and Mike McEnvoy bought the companyfrom his father-in-law, Bill Matheus. He sold the company in the late 1990s and retired.

He was a long-time member of Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club.

George Edward Cilker, 89, retiredowner of Pine Cone Lumber, Sunnyvale, Ca., died Nov. 12 in Los Altos, Ca.

Mr. Cilker attended Stanford University before becoming a pilot with the Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he partnered with his brother-in-law Wesley Hubbard and Chet Johnson in Hubbard & Johnson Lumber.

In 1959, he and his wife, Elizabeth, started Pine Cone. He retired in 1995 and left the company to his three sons.