Home Textiles Today - July 9, 2001

Memorial services will be held July 24 for Bob Widdess, 57, who died last week after several years of battling cancer. Widdess, who was most recently vp, home for Macy's by Mail, had been a long-time executive at Strouds. Earlier he was dmm at Weinstock's. Mark Grand, vp, home fashions at Sears, and a Strouds colleague, commented, "He was a great guy, a fine merchant and a...

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