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OBITUARIES
ROBERT E. MAHAFFAY
Robert E, Mahaffay, 58, long-time advertising and promotion director for Western 4i,t::,1! Wood Products Association and a noted Northwest writer and author died April 25 following a brief illness.
Mr. Mahafray was born August 15, 1908 in Marquette, Michigan. He graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington in 1926, and attended the University of Washington in Seattle.
In 1931 Mahafray turned to free lance writing, and during the next ten years sold more than a million words of fiction to magazines such as Adventure, Argosy, Liberty, and various Western publications.
He subsequently co-authored two non-fiction books, "Four White Horses and a Brass Band" and "Main Line." More than one million copies of his book for children, "The Happy Little Handsaw," have been distributed in Oregon and Washington's elementary schools.
Accomplishments during his career included the creation, development and distribution of more than 30 million pieces of Iumber promotion literature and thousands of top product selling ads. Many of the ad campaigns and promotion innovations he pioneered won national and regional recognition and awards. Three of his programs received awards as the top ad campaign originating in the Northwest.
Just prior to his final illness he had completed writing and producing a major industrial motion picture, "The Mighty Western Forest,tt one in a doze\ or more for which he was responsible. In 1959 he was instrrrmental in setting up the National Wood Promotion Program and had served on many national industry committees and councils.
Surviving are his widow, Virginia Powell Mahaffay of Portland, a daughter Marni of New York City, a son Robert E., Jr,, of
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New York City, and a son William Powell of San Francisco; two sisters, Mrs. N. C. Luhmann and Mrs. Ruth Jerstad of San Leandro, California, and two brothers, Donald R. of San Leandro, Califor"nia and Warren B. of Honolulu. Hawaii.
tEE H. EUBAIIK
Lee H. Eubank, longtime southern California lumberman and founder of L. H. Eubank & Son in Inglewood, Calif. died May 11. He was 91.
Mr. Eubank was born in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1876 and first moved to California in the early 1920s. He worked for Hammond Lumber Co. for more than a decade, acquiring a wide reputation as a millwork specialist,
In 1935, with his son George, he founded the L. H. Eubank & Son firm, which is still in existence. He retired in 1948 to a Wyoming cattle ranch owned by George Eubank, and lived there until two years ag:o when he entered a Lava Springs, Idaho rest home where he lived until his death last month.
Mr. Eubank is survived by two sons and three daughters.
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