Marcus was surrounded by his family at the time of his death on Monday in Boca Raton, Florida. His legacy not only includes the home improvement chain, where he served as the chairman of the board until 2002, but also the Job Creators Network, an organization that offers training to small business owners.

ATLANTA ( WANF /Gray News) - Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, the home improvement retail chain that changed the American business landscape, has died. He was 95. The Home Depot announced his passing on Tuesday morning.

Bernard Bernie Marcus, who co-founded retail chain the Home Depot Inc., has died, aged 95. The Billionaire, said to be a major donor

Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, died Monday at the age of 95. But it's how he lived that's worth celebrating. Marcus wasn't just one of America's great entrepreneurs and philanthropists.

Bernie Marcus, who came up with a revolutionary business idea in the late 1970s — create a do-it-yourself, big-box suburban outlet that would seem more warehouse than store — and, with a partner, turned it into the Home Depot,

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.