Houston Spencer Everett Jr.

Houston Spencer Everett Jr.
August 8, 1938 - February 10, 2023
Boynton Beach, Florida - Houston Spencer Everett Jr. died on February 10, 2023. He was predeceased by his first wife, Bettie Ann Whitehurst Everett in 1996, second wife Mary Ann Powell Holden Everett in 2015; sons Houston Spencer Everett III in 1963 and Wesley Houston Spencer Everett in 2013; sisters, Martha Everett Peterson in 1996 an Excie Everett Taylor in 2016; his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Houston S. Everett of Baltimore, MD. Survivors include his wife Ellen Ann Gimbel Everett, daughter Martha "Marcy" Whitehurst Everett Voelkel (Peter), daughter in law Lisa Williams Everett, Step-sons George Holden, Tom Holden (Cecilla), William Gimbel; step-daughters Jenny Eckmeder (Bruce), Lori Gimbel Parent (Dennis); grand children Carter, McLean, and Hope Voelkel, Catherine, Carolina and Houston Everett and 12 step-grandchildren.
Spencer was born in 1938 in Baltimore MD. He graduated from Gilman School (1956), UNC-Chapel Hill (1960) and University of Virginia School of Law(1963). He completed the Executive Program at UVA Darden School of Business in (1977). He practiced law with Piper & Marbury in Baltimore. In 1970 he was employed to organize the legal department at the T Rowe Price investment firm in Baltimore where he served as General Counsel, member of the board of directors and executive committee before returning to Piper & Marbury in 1980 with T Rowe Price as a client.
After orchestrating the public offering of T Rowe Price in 1986, Spencer moved to Chapel Hill, NC. in 1987 to serve as executive VP of McMillion/Eubanks Capital Markets, Inc. He retired from those duties in 1989. Then he assisted in a series of 4 angel investment syndicates and assisting with early stage start up companies primarily in the Research Triangle Park NC.
In addition to the Board of Directors of T Rowe Price and a number of its sponsored mutual funds, Spencer served on an advisory board of Inner South Partners venture capital partnership in RTP; the boards of Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, the NC Museum of Art Foundation, the Landfall Foundation, the UNC-CH International Studies Advisory Board, the UNCW Cameron Executive Network, and the Alpa Tau Omega National Board of Directors.
Among Spencer's interests in recent years have been the lacrosse program at UNC-CH which he helped reorganize when he was a student (after it had been abolished in 1954); the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at UNC-CH where he helped organize a scholarship fund to reward academic accomplishment and community service, and the mentoring program and the Cameron School of Business at UNCW.
There will be two services: Monday Feb. 20th at 10:00 am at St Andrews Club, 4475 North Ocean Blvd. Del Ray Beach, FL 33483 and Friday March 3, at 10:30 at the Chapel of the Cross, 304 E. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
In lieu of flowers it is suggested that tax-deductible contributions be sent to Alpha Delta Foundation; ? Truist Bank, 143 East Rosemary St. Chapel Hill, NC. 27514