David Murdock, the high school dropout and WW2 veteran who became a billionaire in part by rebuilding and expanding the famous fruit empire Dole, has died at 102. Murdock purchased the nearly ...

David H. Murdock in 2005 after giving a talk at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. He had invested $500 million in the facility, which would study how plant-based diets might lead ...

He was born David Howard Murdock on April 10, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo., and grew up in the small town of Wayne, Ohio. His father was a traveling salesman.

David Murdock in 1989 on his pineapple plantation in Hawaii.© Slim Aarons/Getty Images Murdock in 2005 at a Four Seasons hotel construction site.© Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images ...

He was born David Howard Murdock on April 10, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo., and grew up in the small town of Wayne, Ohio. His father was a traveling salesman.

Murdock was listed at No. 979 on Forbes’ 2025 World’s Billionaires List with a net worth of $3.7 billion. Early life of David Murdock Born in Kansas City, Murdock grew up in Wayne, Ohio.

David Murdock, Corporate Investor Who Made Nutrition an Obsession, Dies at 102 Murdock, a high-school dropout, made a fortune in real estate and agriculture, owning Dole Food By James R. Hagerty Share ...

David Gale Murdock, Age 60, of Portage, IN passed away on Saturday, October 8th, 2016. He was born in Hammond, IN on December 6, 1955 to Warren Gale and Helen (Cozad) Murdock. He married Judith ...