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O. G. GRIMES
Osborne Gurnett Grimes, of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, one of the best known and liked lumber salesmen in California, passed away in San Francisco after a brief illness, December 14. Funeral services were held in Oakland, December 16, and were attended by a large number of lumbermen.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Belle Grimes, two sons, William A., and Osborne Grimes, Jr., his father, Ted. E.' and mother, Mrs. Anne J. Grimes, and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Benton, Jr.
"Red" Grimes, as he was affectionately known, was born in Alameda 42 years ago. He started his lumber career in the reiail end of the lumber business with Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, and then went with the C & O Lumber Company at Brookings, Ore., to get sawmill experience. He returned later to California to go on the road for Sunset Lumber Company in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. He became connected with The Pacific Lumber Company in 1921, and traveled the Coast Counties territory for them fuom l92l to 1926. The company sent him to Texas for nine months in 1926-27, and he represented Pacific in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys f.tom l9Z7 to 1932. He was transferred to Los Angeles for two years and then returned to the San Joaquin Valley territory, remaining there up to the time of his death.
W. H. FALCONBURY
William H. Falconbary, 61, prominent Northern -California lumberman, passed away in Stockton, December 16.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucille Falconbury, two daughters, Barbara Jean Falconbury of Stockton and Mrs. Frances Ellis of Mount Shasta, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. John Reece and Mrs. Elvester Carman of Waynesburg, Ky.; and Mrs. Mary K. Emerson of Mount Washington, Ky. He was a native of Danville, Ky.
Mr. Falconbury engaged in the lumber industry first in Oklahoma. He came to California in 1907 and became associated with the Cross Lumber Company, San Francisco. He later went to Coalinga as manager of the Coalinga Lumber Company, and following this was manag'er of retail yards for Chas. Nelson Company for some time. He then went to Modesto as manager of Modesto Lumber Company, and was the first president of Modesto Chamber of Commerce,
He organized the Falconbury Lumber Company in Stockton 15 years ago, and later merged with the San Joaquin Lumber Company, of which he was president.
He was active in civic and trade association rvork; a member of the Masons, Elks, and Kiwanis Club, and a former president of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club.
GEORGE H. BROWN
George Herbert Brown, well known in the hardwood and plywood trade in the San Francisco Bay district for many years, died suddenly in his office in Oakland, December 19. R"l tion with the lumber industry was when he became associated with Strable Lumber & Salt Company, in Saginaw, Mich., where he held the position of office manager. He caine to California and started the Strable Hardwood Company in Oakland in 1906, remaining as its head for a period of about 20 years. He went into the hardwood business for himself in Oakland in 1927, and a few years ago closed out this business and became district sales representative for Northern California for the Aberdeen Plywood Company of Aberdeen, Wash.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Virginia E. Brown. He was a member of Live Oak Lodge No. 61, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite Bodies, and Aahmes Temple, Mystic Shrine. Funeral services were held in Oakland, December 22.
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H. Iv\/. GALBRAITH
Henry William Gal'braith, president of the FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Co., died suddenly Friday morning, December 4, at his home in Amarillo, Texas. He was 66 years of age.
Mr. Galbraith was one of the lumber pioneers of the Texas plains country. At the age of 12 he u'as brought to this country by his father, an Irish Episcopalian minister, who settled with his family near Kerrville, Texas, where they operated a ranch. Later he made his home for awhile in El Paso, and then in Texarkana, and in 1901 settled in Dalhart.
It was in Dalhart that he laid the foundations for the great retail lumber organization rvhich is one of the largest and foremost in the Southwest. fn association with his brother, J. C. Galbraith, and W. L. Foxworth of Dallas, he started a yard in Dalhart in 1901. Today the FoxworthGalbraith Lumber Company operates some eighty yards in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. In 1909, Mr' Galbraith moved to Amarillo, where he made his home and where the headquarters of the company is now located.
He was one of the early progressives in the Texas retail lumber industry, and in 1932 was president of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas. He served as a director of the Association for many years, also on many boards and 'committees. IIe served as president of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, was active in Rotary, a member of the Episcopal Chur'ch, and participated in many philanthropic movements.
Funeral servi'ces were held December 5, in Amarillo, and burial was in Austin, Texas. Mr. Galbraith's employees and associates were active pallbearers.
He is survived by his wife and son, three brothers, Dr' B. Galbraith, Kerrville; Rev. J. E. H. Galbraith, Louisville, Ky.; J. C. Galbraith, El Paso; and three sisters, Miss Florence Galbraith, Kerrville; Mrs. B. Beecroft, Laguna, Texas. and Mrs. W. M. Molesworth, Austin.
L. H. MILLER
Lynn H. Miller, prominent Northwest lumberman, died at Tucson, Ariz., on December 11. He was born December13, 1878 in Greenwood, Wis. Mr. Miller moved west in 1896 and settled at Chehalis, Wash., where he was asso- ciated with the H. J. Miller Lumber Company' A few years later he organized the Chehalis Lumber Company in that city. From 1905 to 1915, he manufactured Douglas fir lumber in National, Wash., and then built and operated a mill at Kerriston, Wash. For the past several years he was located in the Southwest.
He is survived by his rvife, Lillian Langhorn Miller, a son and two daughters, who now reside in Los Angeles'
David Woodhead
David Woodhead, president of the Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, died at his home early Tuesday morning, December 29. He had been in poor health for some time.
Mr. Woodhead was born in England, June 6, 1872. He came to America in 1890, and went to Texas where he resided for twenty-two years' and while there he became identified with the lumber business. Shortly afterwards he married Emma B. Pontefract of Houston. He came to Los Angeles from Houston in 1912, became associated with the Southern California Hardwood and Manufacturing Company, and four years later organized the Woodhead Lumber Company.
Mr. Woodhead was a progressive retail lumber dealer, took an active interest in civic and business affairs, and was very popular with the lumber fraternity. He was a deep student of philosophy and economics and throughout his career as a lumberman was a disciple of Henry George, taking a prominent part in all political campaigns to promote that method of taxation.
He was a former president of The Municipal League of Los Angeles; a member of the California Tax Relief Association; the Optimist Club; a member of Hoo-Hoo and had served on the SuPreme Nine.
He is survived by his wife, Emma B. Woodhead; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Addington, Mrs. Gordon Buckner, and Mrs. Harold A. Brown, all of Los Angeles; two sisters, Mrs. Richard Burnaby, Beaumont, Texas, and Mrs. Elizabeth Roper, Los Angeles, and a brother, Edward S' Woodhead, Houston.
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Funeral services were held at Pierce Brothers' Chapel, Los Angeles, at 1:00 P. M., Wednesday afternoon, December 30.
. HAROLD J. FAGAN
Harold James Fagan, well known in California lumber circles, died in Oakland, December 12, altet a short illness' In his earlier years he had been associated with Cottoneva Lumber Co.. afterwards becoming a partner in the McCullough-Fagan Lumber Co. of San Francisco' For the past several years he had been with the Charles Nelson Co' and their Los Angeles affiliate-Consolidated Lumber Co' "Hal" Fagan is survived by his widow Elizabeth Haas Fagan, a daughter, Adrienne, and son, Jerome Fagan; two broithers, Paul I. and James J. Fagan. He was a native of Alameda and the son of the late J"s. J' Fagan, for many years Vice-President of Crocker National Bank of San Fraircisco.
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