Millard Lumber is proud to be named an Omaha’s Choice winner for Building Supply Company in the Omaha World-Herald’s 2025 Omaha’s Choice Awards.
George F. Russell and Raymond F. Watson founded Millard Lumber & Grain Company in 1948 after purchasing the business from William von Dohren. The business initially catered to a rural farming community of fewer than 400. Millard Lumber provided a center for the farmers to sell grain, buy coal and of course, purchase lumber.
As time passed, George F. Russell shifted the focus of the business towards building materials and products that supplied both professional contractors and do-it-yourself homeowners. Millard Lumber was an early manufacturer of roof trusses, pre-manufactured wall sections and pre-hung doors and has stayed in the forefront of advanced building techniques since that time…