Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus (left) and co-founder Arthur Blank in 1997. They weren’t the first to build a “big box” store. They weren’t even the first to have a home impr ...

Bernard Marcus helped found the Home Depot and grow it into the largest home improvement retailer. But the governor says his impact goes far beyond that.

But Marcus, the co-founder of Atlanta-based Home Depot and a billionaire philanthropist, whom Gov. Brian Kemp called “a repairer of the world,” was eulogized Thursday for the impact he had on people ...