Stinker Stores owner and former CEO Charley Jones died from cancer Wednesday morning, Stinker’s CEO said.
Jones and his business partner Shawn Davis purchased the iconic Idaho gasoline chain from the family of founder Farris Lind in 2002. A decade later, Jones bought out Davis to became the sole owner of the brand with his wife, Nancy.
Stinker Stores was started in 1936 with a single gas station in Twin Falls. Lind was tagged by big oil companies in the 1940s as a “stinker” because he undercut their prices, the Idaho Statesman previously reported . The epithet led the company to assume a skunk wearing red boxing gloves as its logo…