Rank #935
Eleanor Butt Crook & family
Net worth $4.6B
Supermarkets · United States
- Born
- Jul 21, 1932
- Age
- 93
- Source
- Supermarkets
- Residence
- San Marcos, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Eleanor Butt Crook is an heir to the H-E-B grocery fortune.
- The San Antonio-based chain has 455 stores in Texas and Mexico and generates $50 billion in revenues.
- Crook's grandmother, Florence Butt, founded the company in 1905 after her husband was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was unable to work.
- Crook has no role in day-to-day operations but serves on the board of directors.
- Her brother, Charles Butt, who is chairman of H-E-B, is also a billionaire.
- She and her late husband, Ambassador William Crook, started the Eleanor Crook Foundation to fight global malnutrition in 1997.