ROGERS -- A.G. Russell, 85, an innovator and icon in the knife industry, died unexpectedly on Oct. 12th during a routine angioplasty. His widow, Goldie Russell, the president and chief executive officer of A.G. Russell Knives for more than a decade, says that despite the loss, the business will continue to serve its thousands of customers around the globe. A.G. Russell knife designer Phil Gibbs said the company still has hundreds of designs created by Russell himself, many of which will eventually make it to the marketplace. A.G. Russell, born Aug. 27, 1933 in Eudora, said on the company website that he had been designing knives `almost since I could first hold a pencil.` He said his...
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