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A bust of the Pilgrim's Pride founder Bo Pilgrim at its distribution center near Pittsburg, Tex.
LM Otero/Associated Press; thumbnail, Herb Nygren Jr./Tyler Morning Telegraph via Associated Press, 2005
Bo Pilgrim
Died on July 21, 2017 at age 89
Mr. Pilgrim was a small-town Texan who transformed a tiny feed and seed store into one of the biggest chicken producers in the United States and put himself in its logo — in the form of a silhouetted profile under a black, buckled Pilgrim’s hat.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.