Industrialist Morris B. Pendleton Dies
Morris B. Pendleton, a Southern California industrialist and civic leader, has died in Claremont after a brief illness. He was 84.
Pendleton was the retired chairman of Pendleton Tool Industries Inc., which manufactures hand tools, and was a former member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees. He died last Monday.
Born Feb. 4, 1901, in Saratoga, Calif., Pendleton was educated in Berkeley and graduated from Pomona College with a degree in economics.
He went to work in the forge shop and stockroom of the Plomb Tool Co., a small Los Angeles firm that his father partly owned. It had been founded as a blacksmith shop in 1907.
Pendleton worked his way up to the presidency of the company in 1936, and the company’s name was changed to Pendleton Tool Industries. After it was purchased by the Ingersoll-Rand Co., Pendleton was named to the board of the parent company.
He is survived by his wife, Gladys S. Pendleton; a sister, Adaline P. Satterthwaite of Langhorne, Pa; a son, John M. Pendleton of La Jolla; a daughter, Barbara P. Wimmer of Seattle; five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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