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Biography: Rich DeVos. Rich greets the crowd at a celebration of Amway’s 50th anniversary. Personal. Born March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan; died peacefully at his Ada, Michigan, home on September 6, 2018. Married February 1953, to the former Helen J. Van Wesep of Grand Rapids, who passed away October 18, 2017.
Sep 6, 2018 · GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Richard DeVos, the West Michigan native who co-founded Amway and was one of the area’s biggest philanthropists, has died. Spokesperson Nick Wasmiller says Rich ...
Sep 7, 2018 · Richard Marvin DeVos was born March 4, 1926, to Dutch immigrant parents in the Grand Rapids suburb of Ada. He attended Grand Rapids Christian High School where he met his future business partner ...
Sep 6, 2018 · DETROIT—Billionaire Richard DeVos, co-founder of direct-selling giant Amway, owner of the Orlando Magic and father-in-law of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, died Thursday. He was 92. Family ...
Richard DeVos was born March 4, 1926 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Ethel and Simon DeVos. Much of his childhood was spent during the Great Depression and, like many others, his family struggled, including having to leave their home for a rental house for a period. DeVos was a Grand Rapids Press carrier as a boy.
Richard M. DeVos married Helen Van Wesep on 7 February 1953 and the couple had four children; three sons – Richard Jr. or Dick DeVos, born in 1955, Dan DeVos born in 1959 and Doug DeVos born in 1964, and a daughter Suzanne ‘Cheri’ DeVos. Dick DeVos was the President of Amway from the year 1993 to 2002, he is married to Betsy DeVos, the US ...
Sep 6, 2018 · DETROIT —. Billionaire Richard DeVos, co-founder of direct-selling giant Amway, owner of the Orlando Magic and father-in-law of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, died Thursday. He was 92. Family ...
