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Industry loses EP Severns of Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Kokomo

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April 10, 2020

E.P. Severns, who ran the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Kokomo, Indiana for six decades, passed away Tuesday at Primrose Retirement Community, according to a Kokomo Tribune report. He was 89.

Severns began working at Kokomo Coca-Cola in 1947 at the age of 17 and became president in 1959. He retired in January 2019, and his son, Craig, became president.