content: Long Live Station Casinos.\n\nFounder Frank Fertitta Jr. has been called home to be with his elders in Heaven.\n\nFrank Fertitta Jr. died at age 70 last week following recent heart surgery at Ceders-Sinai Hosptial in Los Angeles. From humble beginnings as a bell-man at the Tropicana almost fifty years ago to founder of an empire that is a Las Vegas icon, Frank Fertitta Jr. embodied the very spirit that made America great. Frank Fertitta Jr. was what all Americans should aspire to be.\n\nRest in peace, Frank Fertitta Jr.