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In this undated photo provided by Rite Aid Corp., Alex Grass Rite Aid Corp. founder and former CEO, is shown. Grass' daughter, Elizabeth Weese, said he died Thursday night, Aug. 27, 2009, after a 10-year battle with lung cancer. He was 82 years old.
Alex Grass
Founder of Rite Aid chain, dies at 82
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. founder Alex Grass has died at age 82.
Grass' daughter, Elizabeth Weese, says he died Thursday night in Harrisburg, Pa., after a 10-year battle with lung cancer.
He helped build Rite Aid into one of the nation's largest drugstore chains and was a philanthropist who gave to civic, health and educational organizations in the Harrisburg area.
Grass was educated as a lawyer, but his business career took off when he opened a health and beauty aids store in Scranton in 1962. He stepped down as chairman and chief executive in 1995.
His son, Martin Grass, later ran the Camp Hill-based company but was ousted in 1999. He's in prison for conspiracy stemming from an overstatement of Rite Aid's earnings in the late 1990s.
August 27, 2009
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