Harold Hutchinson Everett ’34

Harold Hutchinson Everett ’34 died on June 24, 2009, in Jacksonville, Florida.

He was born on August 17, 1913, in Franklin, Mass., grew up in Wellesley, and graduated from Wellesley High School. He attended Bowdoin from 1930 to 1932 as a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduating in 1935.

He enjoyed a 45-year career marketing highly technical electronic controls, with positions at the Foxboro Company, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp., and Holliday Hathaway Co. Inc.

In 1950, he started his own business, Everett Sales Engineering Company, which became Everett Marketing Corp. in 1968. He ran the company until his retirement in 1980.

He was active in civic and community affairs, serving the incorporated village of Munsey Park on Long Island as a trustee, a member of the board of governors, and as the board president. He was passionate about genealogy, meticulously researching his ancestry back into the seventeenth century. He was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, and Sons of the American Revolution.

He is survived by his wife of eight years, Laudra Wakeman Phares Everett; daughter Jean; sons Malcolm and Peter, and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Jean Deering McCollom, in 1979, after 39 years of marriage; his second wife, Florence Lacy, to whom he was married 19 years, in 1999; and his brother Paul E. Everett Jr. ’32.