Daughter embraces pharmacy founders legacy

In the Fruth Pharmacy on Oakwood Road, one of the best performing stores in the chain, CEO Lynne Fruth holds the book she commissioned about the life of her father, the late Jack Fruth. He opened the first of 25 stores in 1952 in Point Pleasant. A former teacher and education consultant, Lynne Fruth assumed the top spot in 2009.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Yes, there's still a Fruth calling the shots for Fruth Pharmacy.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Yes, there's still a Fruth calling the shots for Fruth Pharmacy.

In 2009, four years after Jack Fruth's sudden death, former teacher Lynne Fruth gave up a flourishing career as a school system consultant to operate Fruth Pharmacy Inc., the 25-store chain her father started from scratch in 1952.

Fueled by passion, tenacity and the ideals her father instilled in her, she brought the company back to the prominence it enjoyed under his watch.

Sorting through letters and notes in his desk, she discovered another dimension to his compelling bootstrap success story -- the role of Good Samaritan.

The revelation inspired her to commission a book about his life, "A Journey of Giving."

Interviewed at the Oakwood Road store, known to the corporation as Store 14, she talked about growing up in the first Fruth store in Point Pleasant and the legacy of the man behind that familiar name.

She's 54.

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Daughter embraces pharmacy founders legacy