Chris Huss, Supermarket Developer, Dies at 65

CHICAGO -- Services will be held here Saturday, and in Newport Beach, Calif., on April 20, for Chris Huss, a former real estate executive with several supermarket chains in the West and Midwest, who died April 7 after a sudden illness. Huss, 65, began his career in Chicago with Piggly Wiggly, which later became Eagle Foods. In the late 1980s he went west to head up real estate for Lucky Stores, which was later acquired by American Stores and subsequently by Albertsons. Huss was instrumental in the development of hundreds of supermarkets and drug stores throughout California, Nevada and Arizona, and before that throughout the Midwest. Most recently, Chris and his son Matt Huss formed a partnership with Great American Capital to develop neighborhood shopping centers in Las Vegas and Phoenix.