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Obituaries
T.S. "Smitty" Smith, 78, retired supervisor and buyer for Robbins Manufacturing Co., Tampa, Fl., died of cancer Sept.Z2 in Tampa.
Born in Okeechobee, Fl., he retired from Robbins in 1982 after 34 years with the company.
J.W. "Dick" Jones, 84, retired manager of Barton's, McGehee, Ar., died of a heart attack Aug. 15 in Pine Bluff, Ar.
Born in Poplar Bluff, Mo., he started with Barton's in Hanisburg, Ar., in 1936, retiring in1979.
Walton R. Smith, 86, a founder of the Hardwood Research Council, Memphis, Tn., died Sept. 10.
During his 62-year career, he worked for the USDA Forest Service for 33 years in Mississippi, New Orleans, La., and Asheville, N.C.
After retirement, he founded a forest products and management consulting business in Franklin, N.C., and managed a 2,000-acre hardwood demonstration forest.
Mr. Smith received the Borden Award for Outstanding Research, the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for Advocacy, the Fred Gottschalk Award, and the USDA Superior Service Award.
Wholesaler Makes History
Lyng & Son Lumber, Madison Heights, Va., has carved a unique niche by becoming part of historyfurnishing historically accurate materials to restore many of the venerable stuctures in the area.
While the bulk of its business is wholesaling wood products to millwork shops and building supply dealers such as Lowe's and Moore's, the company has supplied the replacement white,oak timbers for former hesident Thomas Jefferson's summer home, "Popular Forest," in Forest, Va.; lumber and timber materials for Colonial Williamsburg and George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia, and siding, flooring, roofing and structural timbers for numerous other state and national historical projects.
Most recently, Lyng & Son furnished the hand-riven white oak clapboards for the "Kitchen House" roof at the Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown, Va.
Owner Scott Lyng got the idea of seeking and bidding on restoration and preservation jobs from his days in the e?rly 1970s redeveloping large old houses and commercial buildings in the inner cities into apartuents.
"We would replace these massive solid redwood columns and these old crown mouldings that were six or seven pieces," he recalled.
The firn lists its products and services under "woodworking" on the Internet, but gets most of its renovation jobs from word of mouth.
Its reputation has led to projects "as mundane" as replacing dry docks and timbers for submarines in Chesapeake, Va., to residing Camp David in Maryland. Although Lyng provided all the siding for the presidential retreat, he "never got to see it. They made our trucks park six miles away from the complex, then had contractors with special security clearance drive the materials in and later return the trucks to our waiting drivers."
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