Harmon "Hymie" Schepps died yesterday in Dallas at the age 93. He started the Texas dairy company named for him, Schepps Dairy, in 1942 and sold it to Foremost Dairies in 1985.

After the Knudsen Foods-Foremost bankruptcy a few years later, Schepps Dairy emerged with two other plants to form the foundation for Southern Foods Group under the primary ownership of Schepp's business partner Pete Schenkel. Southern Foods Group grew into a large regional dairy company that was purchased in 2000 by Suiza Foods Company, which merged with Dean Foods the following year.

Schepps will be buried this week in Dallas.