Bob Waltrip, founder of Houston-based Service Corp., has died at 92

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Bob Waltrip, philanthropist and founder of Houston-based Service Corp., has died at 92

Robert L. Waltrip, philanthropist and founder of Houston-based Service Corporation International, has died at 92.

In 1962, continuing to expand the business, he founded Service Corporation International, which is now the largest provider of funeral services in North America, and more than 120 cemeteries and funeral homes in Texas. In recent years, responding to the growing diversity of the Houston area, the company hasto include Islamic gardens, for example, and red and black granite imported directly from China.

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