Beth Curry, Ex-Homemaker Behind Eagle Capital, Dies at 74

Beth Curry, a former homemaker who returned to school for an MBA and co-founded Eagle Capital Management, a New York-based investment firm with $25 billion in assets, has died. She was 74.

She died Nov. 16 at her home in Manhattan, her husband, Ravenel Boykin Curry III, said in a telephone interview. The cause was a recurrence of breast cancer that was first diagnosed 23 years ago.