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Article: Obituaries
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 19, 2002
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Franklin Ward Fairfax, 95, a former Washington druggist who owned
and operated the Red Top grocery store on Cobb Island, Md., which he
opened in 1968 and sold in 1992, died of pneumonia July 16 at his
home on the island in Charles County.
Mr. Fairfax was born in Burke and raised in Washington.
He was a 1927 graduate of McKinley Technical High School.
In the late 1920s, he began working at what was then Minson's
Pharmacy, near the corner of Eighth and F streets NE. That business
later became Robbin's Pharmacy. In the 1940s, Mr. Fairfax, who had
worked at the pharmacy continuously, bought the place and renamed it
Temple Pharmacy.
At the time, it was one of a few drugstores in the District that ...