MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Fred Smith, founder of FedEx Corporation and a Marine Corps veteran, has died.
Smith died on Saturday at the age of 80, sources confirmed to Nexstar’s WREG. FedEx later confirmed his passing. A cause of death was not immediately available.
Smith was born in Marks, Mississippi, in 1944 and earned his degree from Yale in 1966. Following college, Smith joined the U.S. Marines and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He left the military as a captain in 1969 after two tours in Vietnam, where he was decorated for bravery and wounds received in combat…