Harwell PROFFITT, native Blount Countian, died yesterday after a valiant struggle with bone cancer. Although Harrell PROFFITT did not know me, except as an employee of the greenhouse and nursery family he lastly married into, I knew him to be a man of upstanding quality. The company created by his father, D. W. PROFFITT, is now the owners of SAKS Inc. He gave a seminar I attended, about 1992, on how to greet and handle customers, and he made a point of teaching us that all people should be treated the same, regardless of how they appeared when entering the garden center I was employed at, for he had many times shopped there in his 'work clothes'. I knew as I listened, that this was a man who held a multitude of knowledge. His obituary can be read at www.thedailytimes.com/topofnews/hp32500.html If you have trouble with that one go to www.thedailytimes.com then go to obits. Alice Foster-Blevins Maryville, TN