Obituary
Jack Cain Sr., a long-time employee of Catalytic Generators, Norforlk, Va., died Oct. 17. He was 85.
Dennis “Denny” Donovan, who spent almost three decades of his career at the Garin Co., Salinas, has died.
Leo Baribeau, who was president of Star Produce and active in the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, has died.
Hugh Hinton Branch, who founded Hugh H. Branch Inc. in 1957, has died.
Kam Chiu Lee, co-founder of Fresh Direct Produce Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, has died.
Jerry Havel, active in the produce industry right out of college and a veteran of the Nogales, Ariz., import business, has died.
Jim Gulick, former vice president of logistics-North America for Del Monte Fresh Produce, died on June 30.
Frank Capone, who spent some of his 30 years at Dominick’s Finer Foods as a buyer of imported produce in Nogales, Ariz., has died.
A Celebration of Life service has been scheduled for Frieda Rapoport Caplan, who died Jan. 18.
Nace Brian Cohen, who founded Progressive Produce in Los Angeles in 1967 with Charles Gilb, as a potato and onion company, has died.
Nina Balducci, a pioneer of specialty foods retailing in New York City at Balducci’s, and part of the foundation of Baldor Specialty Foods, Bronx, N.Y., has died.
Produce industry veteran Ron Dandrea, 57, died April 11.
Frank Robert “Bob” Nunes, who founded The Nunes Co. in 1976 with his brother Tom, has died.
Jim Sarale, co-founder and part-owner of Kings Crown Packing and Queens Crown, has died.
Bill Stewart, a founder of WesPak Sales, Dinuba, Calif., has died.
Robert Glasser, who started each morning at 2 a.m. for 60 years opening the family business, Torn & Glasser, has died.
From the family of Andrew Dewsnup: It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Andrew Dewsnup, 60.
Tim Corkill, a long-time regional marketing manager for FirstFruits Marketing, Yakima, Wash., has died.
Long-time Southern California food industry veteran Paul Christianson Jr. died Feb. 4.
Robert “Bobby” O. Bianco, a California table grape grower for more than five decades, has died.
Calvin Tribiano, a longtime sales executive at Vancouver, British Columbia-based The Oppenheimer Group, passed away on May 6 after a brief illness.
NEW YORK STATE — Some people work tirelessly for their region’s produce industry and are well-respected for it, but it isn’t until they’re gone that others realize their impact.
The Fresh Produce & Floral Council is saddened to learn of the loss of Harland Heath.
Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Markets founder and patriarch Angelo Caputo died June 16 at the age of 89.
Ed Harwood, cofounder and emeritus chief science officer at AeroFarms, has died, leaving a legacy of patented innovative agriculture technology and expansion beyond his expectations.
Sabine Henry, tropical manager and salesperson at Central American Produce for almost two decades, passed away August 30.
Fresh Produce and Floral Council have received the sad news that Wayne Snodgrass, of Loomis Distributing, Inc. and formerly Apio, Inc., has passed away.
In 1978, Jorge Aguilar Heredia formally founded AGGALL Coliman Group, with the inauguration of the first sales center in Hermosillo, Sonora in northern Mexico.
Marcela Riquelme, logistics and operations coordinator at the Vanguard International office in Santiago, Chile, has died.