ATLANTA — Bernard "Bernie" Marcus ... and a 250 million dollar grant helped open the Georgia Aquarium in 2005. Marcus retired from Home Depot in 2002, but his impact in Atlanta continued ...

Bernie Marcus, billionaire and co-founder of Home Depot, died on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at age 95. Along with devastation, many tributes have been posted online in honor of Marcus. Arthur M. Blank ...

Marcus served as CEO from the company's inception until 1997, and he was active in the company until 2002. "We owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude to Bernie," a Home Depot spokesperson said.

He poured into it an initial $250 million of his Home ... Marcus dispatched his children into the parking lots with wads of $1 bills. “Bernie came up with the idea of giving people a dollar ...

Bernie Marcus was co-founder of The Home Depot and a longtime Atlanta-based ... In September, The Marcus Foundation gave nearly $26 million for stroke research to Emory University and Grady ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot, a billionaire philanthropist ... donating nearly $5 million to the Republican Party between 2016 and 2020 ...