Earl Berry, Foothills Lumber Man
JACKSON-Funeral services for Earl C. Berry, 77 , of Jackson, longtime area lumbar man regarded as an expert sawyer and saw filer who was descended from a Mother Lode family which settled in the Sierra foothills in the 1840s will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the J.J. Daneri & Son Funeral chapel here.
Berry died unexpectedly Sunday in a Stockton hospital following a minor surgery.
He was a native of Glencoe, Calaveras County, and had resided here the past 45 years. He was a principal stockholder with other members of his family in the Berry Lumber Co. from 1929 to 1960 when the company was liquidated. The first family sawmill, C.A. Berry and Sons, was founded in West Point, Calaveras County, after the turn of the century. It was sold in 1927.
The family then founded the Berry Lumber Co. in Pi Pi Valley of El Dorado County north of Cook's Station. The first mill on the site was destroyed by fire in 1934. The family rebuilt the mill and continued to operate it until 1960.
A self=taught draftsman, Berry drew the plans for all three of the family's mills. He retired a few years ago as a saw filer with Cal Mills of Pioneer, Amador County.
He is survived by his widow, Ella; sisters, Ruth B. Bosse of Jackson, Esther A. Bennett of Davis, and Eliabeth Akstand of Manteca, San Joaquin County; and brothers, George of Pine Grove, Amador County, and Frank, Benjamin, and Theodore, all of Jackson. Benjamin Berry is chairman of the Amador County Planning Commission.
During World War I he served with the US Army's 91st Division of the 364th Infantry of the Expeditionary Forces.
Interment in Cherokee Memorial Park.
The Sacramento Bee July 24, 1973
JACKSON-Funeral services for Earl C. Berry, 77 , of Jackson, longtime area lumbar man regarded as an expert sawyer and saw filer who was descended from a Mother Lode family which settled in the Sierra foothills in the 1840s will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the J.J. Daneri & Son Funeral chapel here.
Berry died unexpectedly Sunday in a Stockton hospital following a minor surgery.
He was a native of Glencoe, Calaveras County, and had resided here the past 45 years. He was a principal stockholder with other members of his family in the Berry Lumber Co. from 1929 to 1960 when the company was liquidated. The first family sawmill, C.A. Berry and Sons, was founded in West Point, Calaveras County, after the turn of the century. It was sold in 1927.
The family then founded the Berry Lumber Co. in Pi Pi Valley of El Dorado County north of Cook's Station. The first mill on the site was destroyed by fire in 1934. The family rebuilt the mill and continued to operate it until 1960.
A self=taught draftsman, Berry drew the plans for all three of the family's mills. He retired a few years ago as a saw filer with Cal Mills of Pioneer, Amador County.
He is survived by his widow, Ella; sisters, Ruth B. Bosse of Jackson, Esther A. Bennett of Davis, and Eliabeth Akstand of Manteca, San Joaquin County; and brothers, George of Pine Grove, Amador County, and Frank, Benjamin, and Theodore, all of Jackson. Benjamin Berry is chairman of the Amador County Planning Commission.
During World War I he served with the US Army's 91st Division of the 364th Infantry of the Expeditionary Forces.
Interment in Cherokee Memorial Park.
The Sacramento Bee July 24, 1973
Earl Berry, Foothills Lumber Man
JACKSON-Funeral services for Earl C. Berry, 77 , of Jackson, longtime area lumbar man regarded as an expert sawyer and saw filer who was descended from a Mother Lode family which settled in the Sierra foothills in the 1840s will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the J.J. Daneri & Son Funeral chapel here.
Berry died unexpectedly Sunday in a Stockton hospital following a minor surgery.
He was a native of Glencoe, Calaveras County, and had resided here the past 45 years. He was a principal stockholder with other members of his family in the Berry Lumber Co. from 1929 to 1960 when the company was liquidated. The first family sawmill, C.A. Berry and Sons, was founded in West Point, Calaveras County, after the turn of the century. It was sold in 1927.
The family then founded the Berry Lumber Co. in Pi Pi Valley of El Dorado County north of Cook's Station. The first mill on the site was destroyed by fire in 1934. The family rebuilt the mill and continued to operate it until 1960.
A self=taught draftsman, Berry drew the plans for all three of the family's mills. He retired a few years ago as a saw filer with Cal Mills of Pioneer, Amador County.
He is survived by his widow, Ella; sisters, Ruth B. Bosse of Jackson, Esther A. Bennett of Davis, and Eliabeth Akstand of Manteca, San Joaquin County; and brothers, George of Pine Grove, Amador County, and Frank, Benjamin, and Theodore, all of Jackson. Benjamin Berry is chairman of the Amador County Planning Commission.
During World War I he served with the US Army's 91st Division of the 364th Infantry of the Expeditionary Forces.
Interment in Cherokee Memorial Park.
The Sacramento Bee July 24, 1973
JACKSON-Funeral services for Earl C. Berry, 77 , of Jackson, longtime area lumbar man regarded as an expert sawyer and saw filer who was descended from a Mother Lode family which settled in the Sierra foothills in the 1840s will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the J.J. Daneri & Son Funeral chapel here.
Berry died unexpectedly Sunday in a Stockton hospital following a minor surgery.
He was a native of Glencoe, Calaveras County, and had resided here the past 45 years. He was a principal stockholder with other members of his family in the Berry Lumber Co. from 1929 to 1960 when the company was liquidated. The first family sawmill, C.A. Berry and Sons, was founded in West Point, Calaveras County, after the turn of the century. It was sold in 1927.
The family then founded the Berry Lumber Co. in Pi Pi Valley of El Dorado County north of Cook's Station. The first mill on the site was destroyed by fire in 1934. The family rebuilt the mill and continued to operate it until 1960.
A self=taught draftsman, Berry drew the plans for all three of the family's mills. He retired a few years ago as a saw filer with Cal Mills of Pioneer, Amador County.
He is survived by his widow, Ella; sisters, Ruth B. Bosse of Jackson, Esther A. Bennett of Davis, and Eliabeth Akstand of Manteca, San Joaquin County; and brothers, George of Pine Grove, Amador County, and Frank, Benjamin, and Theodore, all of Jackson. Benjamin Berry is chairman of the Amador County Planning Commission.
During World War I he served with the US Army's 91st Division of the 364th Infantry of the Expeditionary Forces.
Interment in Cherokee Memorial Park.
The Sacramento Bee July 24, 1973
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