https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/29/trader-joes-founder-joe-coulombe-dies-at-age-89/

Joe Coulombe, a retail visionary who founded the influential Trader Joe’s grocery chain and went on to become a food and wine commentator, amateur painter and Southern California philanthropist, has died.

Coulombe had been in declining health and more recently had been receiving hospice care. He died late Friday evening at his Pasadena home, according to his son who is also named Joe. He was 89.