(AP) -- One of South Carolina's business giants is being remembered as someone who had an impact on the textile world.
A memorial service was held Monday for textile titan Roger Milliken at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Spartanburg. Milliken took over his family's textile business Milliken & Co. in 1947 and turned it into an international multibillion dollar giant that employs 9,000 people in 50 plants.
He was remembered by family, friends, and former employees as a builder and innovator. Clay Turner was Milliken's pastor and friend, and he said Milliken was a generous man who saw the potential in everyone.
Milliken died Thursday at age 95. He also was influential in the early growth of the state's Republican party and was a longtime advocate of protecting the environment.
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