Bruce Thomas Halle was an American businessman, and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire.
16 Facts About Bruce Halle
1.
2.
Bruce Halle was the wealthiest person in Arizona, with an estimated net worth of $5.2 billion at the time of his death.
3.
Bruce Halle was born on May 27,1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts as the second of seven children to Catholic parents, Frederick Joseph "Fred" Halle Sr.
4.
Bruce Halle's father became a firefighter at the Berlin Fire Department and later made deputy chief.
5.
In 1950, Bruce Halle went to enlist in the US Marine Corps and served a tour of duty in the Korean War.
6.
Bruce Halle later settled in Michigan and graduated with a BBA from Eastern Michigan University in 1956.
7.
Bruce Halle tried unsuccessfully to form a partnership with his high school friend, Bill DiDonato, on an auto supply distribution company in Ypsilanti, Michigan and by late 1959, the business went bankrupt.
8.
Bruce Halle made donations to the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Liver Foundation, the American Red Cross, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Childhelp, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
9.
Bruce Halle was the first to pledge charter membership of the Children's Urban Survival Program in Phoenix.
10.
Bruce Halle had a collection of 400 lithographs from the earliest days of tire advertisements.
11.
The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection is a private collection of 20th- and 21st-century art from Latin America based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
12.
Bruce Halle was a supporter of the Tea Party movement throughout the Obama Presidency, including his financial support for the "Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund" and "Tea Party Leadership Fund".
13.
Bruce Halle married his childhood sweetheart, Geraldine "Gerry" Konfara Bruce Halle, in the late 1940s, and she died in 1989 from cancer.
14.
Bruce Halle's children were all born with his first wife Gerry.
15.
Bruce Halle married his second wife, Diane Meyers Bruce Halle, ten years later in 1999.
16.
Bruce Halle was survived by three children, his wife, a brother, and two sisters.