Greenville businessman Tom Minges is being remembered today for his compassion, his love of family and his sense of community.

Minges, 56, died Thursday from an apparent heart attack. He was chairman of the board of directors and chief financial officer of Minges Bottling Group Inc., a distributor of Pepsi-Cola products.

He was one of the leaders of a successful effort to merge three Minges family-owned bottling companies into one entity in the early 2000s.

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