Little Bank chairman and founder, Felix Harvey, who developed his family's farm supply business into a conglomerate of agricultural, transportation and financial companies and was a generous North Carolina philanthropist, died January 2, 2014. Harvey was 93 years old. Harvey was born Charles Felix Harvey, III in Kinston in 1920. After his father died when he was 13, he was raised by his grandmother, Lula Gill, the widow of a Civil War Veteran.
Little Bank chairman and founder, Felix Harvey, who developed his family's farm supply business into a conglomerate of agricultural, transportation and financial companies and was a generous North Carolina philanthropist, died January 2, 2014. Harvey was 93 years old. Harvey was born Charles Felix Harvey, III in Kinston in 1920. After his father died when he was 13, he was raised by his grandmother, Lula Gill, the widow of a Civil War Veteran. He credited her with helping him to develop the self --discipline that was instrumental in his success.