Max ‘Cap’ Winter Jr.

Yreka, Calif. Services for Max Shipman “Cap” Winter Jr., 86, Yreka, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Girdner Funeral Chapel, Yreka. Inurment will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Evergreen Cemetery, Yreka.

Mr. Winter died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2002, at Mercy Medical Center, Redding, after a lengthy illness.

He was born Dec. 11, 1915, in Vici, Okla., the son of Max Shipman Sr. and Clara (Street) Winter.

Mr. Winter was a welder at Lockheed Airplane, Los Angeles, before joining Operating Engineers Local No. 3, Sacramento, as a heavy-equipment operator.

He married Virginia Snyder in 1938, in Woodward, Okla. She died earlier.

In 1954, he married Arlie Bays in Reno, Nev. She also preceded him in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Dallas Woods, Sacramento; a sister, Margaret Vestal, Lawrence, Kan.; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.