K-VA-T Founder, Chairman Jack Smith Dies at 81

ABINGDON, Va. -- Funeral services were pending here for Jack C. Smith, the 81-year-old chairman and founder of K-VA-T Foods, who died yesterday following a brief illness. Smith opened his first store in 1955 -- an 8,800-square-foot Piggly Wiggly -- in Grundy, Va., in partnership with his father and cousin and had built it to an 11-store operation by 1984, when he struck out on his own to open stores under the Food City banner. When the company celebrated its 50th anniversary