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EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Charles R. Rinehart, Bruce G. Willison, Kevin M.
Twomey, Madeleine A. Kleiner and Tim S. Glassett, and each of them, as true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any
and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of H. F.
Ahmanson & Company pertaining to the Company's proposed merger of the Company
with Coast Savings Financial Inc. and to which this Power of Attorney is an
Exhibit and any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to the
Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the foregoing, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or
their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue thereof.
Signature Capacity Date
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/s/ BYRON ALLUMBAUGH Director November 7, 1997
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Byron Allumbaugh
/s/ HAROLD A. BLACK Director November 7, 1997
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Harold A. Black
/s/ RICHARD M. BRESSLER Director November 7, 1997
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Richard M. Bressler
/s/ JOHN E. BRYSON Director November 7, 1997
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John E. Bryson
/s/ DAVID R. CARPENTER Director November 7, 1997
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David R. Carpenter
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/s/ PHILLIP D. MATTHEWS Director November 7 , 1997
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Phillip D. Matthews
/s/ RICHARD L. NOLAN Director November 7, 1997
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Richard L. Nolan
/s/ DELIA M. REYES Director November 7, 1997
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Delia M. Reyes
/s/ CHARLES R. RINEHART Chairman of the Board and November 7, 1997
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Charles R. Rinehart
/s/ FRANK M. SANCHEZ Director November 7, 1997
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Frank M. Sanchez
/s/ ELIZABETH SANDERS Director November 7, 1997
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Elizabeth Sanders
/s/ ARTHUR W. SCHMUTZ Director November 7, 1997
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Arthur W. Schmutz
/s/ WILLIAM D. SCHULTE Director November 7, 1997
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William D. Schulte
/s/ KEVIN M. TWOMEY Vice Chairman of the Board November 7, 1997
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Kevin M. Twomey
/s/ BRUCE G. WILLISON Director November 7, 1997
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Bruce G. Willison
/s/ GEORGE MIRANDA Principal Accounting Officer November 7, 1997
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George Miranda
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