The Dignity Memorial brand name is used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that include affiliates of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. Ward belonged to many other groups and organizations. Portrait of Herman Lay as Chairman of the Board of PepsiCo, 1969, Association of Private Enterprise Education, The Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies, Happy 50th anniversary, Frito-Lay -- PEPline looks back at FLNA's history, "APSU benefactor, alumna, heiress to Frito-Lay Co. dies", Herman Warden Lay Jr., son of snack icon who found his own success in business, dies at 66, "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herman_Lay&oldid=1148928761, Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 9 April 2023, at 03:48. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. He served as a board member for the Shelton School in Dallas and the Pankey Institute of the University of Miami. He has been an associate director of the Graduate School of Business at SMU, and a life member of the U.S. Navy's Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. His late son, Herman Warden Lay Jr., was a Dallas-based Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. In 1945, in the year that Herman W. Lay Jr was born, in October, automobile production in the United States for private consumers was allowed to resume. Giving to charity is a meaningful way to honor someone who has died. He peacefully left us on October 28, 2011. Then with a $30,000 bank loan, he persuaded Barrett to take the difference in preferred stock. Where we share what we remember to make discoveries and meaningful connections with others. He served as a member and as vice chairman of the Dallas Citizens/Police Review Board. The 2.2-acre Lay Ornamental Garden at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens was designed for Mimi Lay Hodges in honor of her late husband. He served as a director and member of the executive committee of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, and was chairman of the annual New Year's Day parade in 1990. He went on to launch his own production company where he worked alongside Academy Award-winning actors and writers and Grammy-award winning musicians, according to the Do Good Mob site. He was a member of Brook Hollow Golf Club, Calyx Club, Dallas Assembly, Dallas County Republican Mens' Club, Dallas Friday Group, Dallas Gun Club, Dallas Petroleum Club, Dallas Safari Club, Society of International Business Fellows, Terpischorean Club, the 500 Inc., and Union League Club of Chicago. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. His spiel was, "Hey, get your nicely roasted, nicely toasted California sun-dried, long-eared, double-jointed peanuts! Herman W. Lay, founder of Lays potato chips, who was later head of the Frito-Lay Company, and then helped create PepsiCo, Inc., spent his grade school years Ward is survived by his children Jesse Chapman Carter Lay and his wife Tina of Dallas and Malibu, California; Harper Whitney Lay and Lyndon Walker Lay, both of Dallas; and his grandchildren Edan Warden Lay and Carissa Tiare Lay; his sisters Susan Lay Atwell and her husband Anthony Atwell of Dallas and Dorothy Lay of Dallas; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Mr. Lays family has a long tradition of contributing to their community through gifts that include the 2.2-acre Lay Ornamental Garden at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and the Lay Family Concert Organ at the Meyerson Symphony Center. Lay, a father-of-two, was a sports enthusiast who took part in celebrity car racing. He served as a board member for the Shelton School in Dallas and the Pankey Institute of the University of Miami. It is a moment we all fear, the lose of a part of us that we cannot replace. David Kessler's top 4 tips for dealing with holiday grief. DALLAS -- The 18-year-old grandson of a co-founder of Frito-Lay Inc. was killed today when his luxury car missed a curve and hit a tree, police said. Herman Warden Lay (1909 1982) was an American businessman who was involved in potato chip manufacturing with his eponymous brand of Lay's potato chips. Ward is survived by his children Jesse Chapman Carter Lay and his wife Tina of Dallas and Malibu, California; Harper Whitney Lay and Lyndon Walker Lay, both of Dallas; and his grandchildren Edan Warden Lay and Carissa Tiare Lay; his sisters Susan Lay Atwell and her husband Anthony Atwell of Dallas and Dorothy Lay of Dallas; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Copyright 2023 South Carolina ETV Commission | Privacy Policy, Herman W. Lay | Legacy of Leadership Profile, A. In 1932, the same year C. E. Doolin began the Frito Company, twenty-three-year-old Herman Lay started a potato chip route in Nashville, Tennessee, and distributed the products of the Barrett Potato Chip Company of Atlanta. Farewell Ward. [1][2] His father, Jesse N. Lay, worked for International Harvester, first as a bookkeeper in Charlotte and later as a commercial salesman in Columbia, South Carolina, where the family moved. As Lay was searching for an opportunity to further expand Frito-Lay's reach into a global marketplace, Pepsi-Cola was chosen as the perfect merger partner, with its 5,000 people working in 100 countries. In 1932, a South Carolina native named Herman Lay became the Nashville delivery man for an Atlanta-based potato chip company called Barrett Food Products. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Oops, we were unable to send the email. April 17 (UPI) -- Police were summoned to a North Carolina store where an alligator wandered up to the entrance and tried to find shade under a row of beach chairs on display. 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But their investment melted away when the parade was rerouted at the last minute, leaving them and their ice cream on a deserted street. [1] His late son, Herman Warden Lay Jr., was a Dallas-based co-founder of a bottling company in Mexico for Pepsi and 7 Up. A GOOD MAN, a generous, kind, dependable and competent friend of 50 years has left us all with an aching void. You can always change this later in your Account settings. In the 1950s, he bought two other snack food companies, increasing his product line and area. Information and advice to help you cope with the death of someone important to you. He peddled potato chips from Atlanta to Nashville, Tennessee. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Add to your scrapbook. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. The exact facility where he resides is unknown. He also served as a member and chairman of the Advisory Council to the Furman University Board of Trustees and was national co-chairman of Furman's Program of Greatness. You may request to transfer up to 250,000 memorials managed by Find a Grave. In 1969, Lay received the Horatio Alger Award from the American Schools and Colleges Association. [3][4] He then worked as a traveling salesman for the Barrett Food Company, when he delivered potato chips to his customers in his Ford Model A. Alligator hides under beach chairs at North Carolina store. Millionaire heir to the Frito-Lay chip fortune, 44, dies at home just two years after he won battle against leukemia. Carter Lay, grandson of Frito-Lay founder Herman Lay, died on Thursday. The father-of-two was found found in his LA home after police received a call that there was an unconscious male at the residence. He also served as chairman of the board of Baylor University Medical Center Foundation and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Dallas Symphony Association. Try again later. I loved the man. Ward also traveled extensively in Argentina, and in 1998 bought a large ranch in Argentina's Lake District of Patagonia, which he converted from a sheep ranch to a guest ranch featuring a renovated century old ranch headquarters, fly fishing and hunting for red deer, boar, and puma. Lay criss-crossed the southern United States selling the product from the trunk of his car. Search above to list available cemeteries. In Dallas, the Lays bought a lot in North Dallas, hired an architect, and built what one magazine writer described as a "huge Gone with the Wind Colonial home.". Add Herman's birthday or the date he died to see a list of historic events He was 11 years old. Welcome to AncientFaces, a com "Thank you for helping me find my family & friends again so many years after I lost them. Lay & Company merged with The Frito Company in September 1961, creating the largest-selling snack food company in the United States, the Frito-Lay corporation. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Ward spent most of his childhood in Atlanta, and the family moved to Dallas in 1962 where Ward's father merged his Lay Company with the Frito Company (and later into Pepsico). His new role required that he make only about 10 trips to New York each year. He also invested in real estate in the United States and abroad. So very sorry for your loss. Ward worked with Pepsico until 1970 when he left to begin a long career as an investor and entrepreneur in many different fields, both domestic and foreign. Opportunity came his way again in 1961, when H.W. Share memories and family stories, photos, or ask questions. 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He was a director and treasurer of the Southern Dallas Development Corporation, a board member of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas (as well as chairing the Y's international committee), and chair of the host committee for the 1994 Dallas Gran Prix. April 17 (UPI) -- International Bat Appreciation Day, celebrated annually on April 17, was designed to dispel myths about the flying mammals and spread word of the benefits the creatures have for the ecosystem. He also served as a director and lecturer for the American Management Association's Operation Enterprise program in New York.Ward loved Dallas where he lived most of his life, and was active in the community. Initially focusing on Mexico, he was a co-founder of a major Mexican holding company with interests including Pepsi-Cola and 7-Up bottling operations, sugar refining, and mineral water distribution, and the Pepsi franchise was Pepsi's largest outside the United States until it was acquired by Pepsi in 2002. Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond. A system error has occurred. [2][9] By 1937, he had 25 employees, and had begun producing his own line of snack foods. They would become the parents of four children: Linda Lay Chambless, who died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of 21; Susan Lay Atwell; H. Ward Lay, Jr.; and Dorothy Lay. The company became the largest Pepsi franchise outside the United States, his family said. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. 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