Sam Walton dead of cancer at 74. (Obituary)

WWD | April 6, 1992| | Copyright

NEW YORK -- Samuel Moore Walton, founder and chairman of one of the nation's largest and consistently profitable retailers, died early Sunday morning at the age of 74, in University Hospital in Little Rock, Ark. He had multiple myeoloma, a form of bone cancer.

A private service will be held for the family.

Walton's career was an all-American success story. From ownership of a single Ben Frankling sore in Newport Ark., in 1945, he built Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., into a 1,720-unit retail giant, generating $44 billion in sales in fiscal 1991 with profits of $1.6 ...

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