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Franlc L, Fox, Prominent Lumberman tnd

Civic Leader, Passeg on Frank L. Fox, of Glendale, Calif., president of the FoxWoodsum Lumber Company, and civic leader, passed away on June 24 at the Monte Sano hospital, Los Angeles, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered June 13. He was 66 years of age.

He was born March 27, L874, in McComb, Illinois. His business career started in a bank where he was assistant cashier. In 1898 he entered the lu r business, being in lX)Z became in Long Beach associated with Samuel T. Woodsu I and his partner. Mr. Woodsum some years ago.

Mr. Fox was president of. Ate Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. since its establishmAnt Southern Calif'ornia in 1910, when the company o its first yard in Redlands, to yard in Glendale and later by be followed in I9l2 bi yards in other Southern lifornia cities. The company has Redlands. Rialto. and the main vards at Pasadena. Colton. yard at Glendale.

ln 1924 he was one of the original incorporators of the Glendale Y. M. C. A., and had been a member of the organization's board of directors since that time. In 1927, he and Mrs. Fox established Camp Fox, a Y. M. C. A. camp on Catalina Island to which he contributed more than $m,000 in the thirteen years of its operation.

I{e was a member of the Glendale Kiwanis Club, serving as its president in 1925,and. was elected lieutenant governor of division three in 1933. In 1935, he was elected governor of the California-Nevada district. He served as president of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce in 1926.

He was a Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of Al Malaikah temple of the shrine.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie W. Fox, and a sister, Miss Jane L. Fox of Long Beach.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, June 26, at the First Baptist Church, Glendale, with pastors of five Glendale churches participating. The Glendale Kiwanis Club chorus sang at the services and members of the Club occupied a reserved section of the church. Employes of the Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co. attended in a group, and members of the Raggers Club, composed of a group of boys who have received the emblem for service and accomplishment at Camp Fox, Y. M. C. A. camp at Catalina Island, represented the thousands of boys who have attended camp during the past thirteen years. A large number of Southern California lumbermen attended the services.

tf(/ilfis T. Pierce

Willis Timmons Pierce. son of ate Gordon D. Pierce, of Boorman Lumber Com kland, passed away rn Oakland on June 2-af t illness. Willis. who was only 11 years old, wa in Oakland. He was a member of Cub No. 1, San