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News of Our Friends in the Services

First Lieutenant William L. Frese, a bombardier in the 15th Army Air Force, son of Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, is home on leave after spending 10 months in a German prison camp hospital in Vienna. IIe was shot down over Romania on his 50th mission on July 31, 1944. He rvas at that time stationed at a base in Italy.' He will report for orders at Santa Monica June 30.

Lieutenant Frese worked at Rockport Redwood Company's mill at Rockport, Calif. in his school vacations, anC expects to enroll at Stanford University when he gets out of the service.

RM 3/C H. Vernon manager of the San is home on furlough the South Pacific.

McGahey, son of Harry C. McGahey, Diego Lumber Company, San Diego, after spending the last two years in

Lieutenant (jg) William H. (Bi11) Laws, USN, son of Henry Laws of Henry Laws Co., Santa Rosa, was reported missing over Japan, March 19. Lieutenant Laws has been flying a Curtiss Helldiver from a carrier, and has seen a lot of action. lfe was associated with his father in the lumber business up to the time he entered the service.

Paul Euphrat, younger son of M. L. (Duke) Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, recently his training as combat crewman at Jacksonville, qualified for pre-flight pilot training in the Naval He is at present home .on leave.

Euphrat, completed Fla., and Air Corps.

Lieutenant Wm. H. (Bill) O'Neill, Jr., 15th Air Force, who has been stationed in Corsica, has been awarded the Air Medal and has been promoted to First Lieutenant, He is one of the four sons of W. H. O'Neill, Sr., O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco, in the Army Air Forces.

Pfc. Arthur Paulson, U. S. Marines, is back from overseas and is in the U. S. Naval Hospital, San l.eandro. He was wounded by a sniper when acting as a forward observer at the invasion of Leyte. He is the son of Arthur M. Paulson of Paulson Lumber Sales Co.. San Francisco.

Bruce Moorehead, son of Charles Moorehead, Moorehead Lum,ber Co., Escalon, Calif., is in the Air Transport Conrmand, stationed at Natal, Brazil.

Ensign Warren Moorehead, USN, Mr. Moorehead's other son, is now on sea duty on a recently commissioned destrover.

Paul C. Stevens, Portland, manager of the Western office of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, reported recently that his son, Paul, 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Force, who was reported missing over Italy when his plane crashed, is home on leave.

Obituaries

E. C. Miller

Ernest C. NIiller, pioneer .\berrlecn, Washington, lumlternran :rnd presiclent ancl gcneral mana{rer of the Ii. C. Miller Ceclar Lumlrer Coml;anr', passed au'av May 21 in Aberdeen after a brief ilh'ress.

He rvas l>orn in Greenville, Xlichigan, llncl came to Ciray's Harbor 41 r'ears ago. l{e estal>lishecl the (irays Harbor Shingle Companv in 1912. and in 1923 added a lnmber n.rill to the plant and changed the name to the present name of the concern

Until the outbreak of l'ar he u,as associatecl in the cornpany u'ith his son-in-lan', Captain Robert W. Ir.rgran-r, now n.ith the Navy in the Pacific.

He u'as a rnember of the West Coast I-umbermen's Association, a life memlter of the N{asonic Lo<lge of Greenville, Michig'an, a member of the Abercleen Elks l-odge. ancl president of the Washir.rgton State Senior Golf Association.

He is surr.ir.e<l bv his u'iclou., ]'Irs. Sarah H. Nliller; a daughter. Mrs. Catherine Nf iller Ingr:rr.n, Aber<leen; a s()r-r, Harold -{. Nfiller, I'ortlan<i; tl-o lrrothers, Clharles M. ancl Italph Ntiller, both of Greenr.ille; a sister, Mrs. Jrrlia Snrith <if Greenville; three gr;rn<lsons, Itobert M. Ingrarn, Jr., rluartermaster in the Navr', Ernest ]'{. and James A. Ing'rarn, and three grandclzrughters.

Mrs. Nellie Ednq Montgomery

Mrs. Nellie Eclna }"lor-rtgomery, u,ife of W. F. Montgom, er1', retired Los -\ngeles lurnberman, passecl arval' on X[av 20 follou'ing a heart attack. She .n'as a n:rtive of Kalamazoo, N[ich., ancl had been a resident of Los Angeles for fort1, years. Resides her husband, she is surr-ivecl ltr. a brotl-rer.

Walter Q. Pctten

\\ralter Q. Patten, r-ice president of the Patten-Blinn Lurnber Companv, Los -,\ngeles, passed au,ay at his hor-ne in Los Angeles on Jrrne ,9. IIe u,as .57 years of age, anrl hacl been a life-long resident of l-os ,\rrgeles L-ount-t'.

Surviving are his l'idou-, NIrs. l,,Iadeline NI. I)atten; threc sons, 13ever-1r', [)uane an<'l l)ana I'atte r.r ; a lrrother, I,'re11 Patten, anrl a sister-. \[rs. XIabel l{anrlin.

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