Wasco-Lane-Hood River County OR Archives Obituaries.....Howe, Bruce A. March 19, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, April 2, 2004
     Bruce A. Howe, Northwest fruit industry veteran, died March 19, 2004 of 
cancer, in Florence.
     He was well known in the fruit industry. In a long career in the food 
business, he retired as vice president of marketing for Diamond Fruit Growers, 
Inc. in Hood River.
     During his career, he was chairman of the Oregon Bartlett Pear Commission 
twice, chairman of Northwest Horticultural Council’s Foreign Trade Committee, 
board member of Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association and Pacific Coast 
Canned Pear Service, and President of Pacific Bartlett Growers, Inc. He served 
as president of The Oregon-Washington-California Pear Bureau, the Northwest 
Horticultural Council, and the Agribusiness Council of Oregon.
     Most recently he was public consultant on the Winter Pear Control 
Committee, the Northwest Fresh Bartlett Marketing Committee, and served as Ex-
Officio of Pear Bureau Northwest until his recent resignation due to his 
illness.
     He is survived by his wife, Linda; daughter Tamara and son-in-law Scott 
VanRas; daughter Deborah Beier; and granddaughter Amelia Beier; as well as a 
sister and brother.
     Services were held March 24 in Salem.


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Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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