DONALD MARSHALL GRAUBART

05/29/1928 - 02/27/2023

Donald Marshall Graubart of Houston passed away peacefully on Monday, the 27th of February 2023. He was 84 years of age.

Don was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 29th of May 1938, and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1960 and then served honorably in the U.S. Coast Guard.

He was recruited by Foley’s to go into their management training program, where he worked until he joined Underwood Neuhaus as a retail stock broker, and then joined Kidder Peabody. In 1995 he started his own firm, Post Oak Capital Advisors, Inc. Don had a long and successful career as a financial advisor for over 50 years. The most important things in his life was is large extended family, his children, his grandchildren, his many friends and most importantly, his wife of 47 years, Anne.

Everything Don did in life, he did with gusto, including skiing the back bowls in Vail, Colorado, golfing with his Westwood and CCR buddies, traveling and supporting O.U. football. He loved his Houston Jewish community and expressed his adoration by passionately supporting The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism, B’Nai Vail and the Emery Weiner School. Together, he and Anne supported The Houston Ballet, Communities in Schools, Goodwill Industries and the M.D. Anderson Prostate Cancer Research Initiative.

Don was preceded in death by his parents, Miriam and Irving Graubart, and his brother-in-law, Walter Croen. In addition to Anne, he is survived by his sons, Marc and his wife Brooke, and their daughter Grace; Steven and his wife Gaby, and their children, Maya, Fernando and Isabel; Lewis, Beatrice and their mother Stacy; as well as his sister, Lila Croen and brother and sister-in-law, Noel and Mickey Graubart; and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service is to be conducted at half-past one o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, the 1st of March, at Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism, 801 Bering Drive in Houston, where Rabbi Steve M. Gross and Rabbi Roy Walter, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Emanu El, are to officiate.

Prior to the service, the family will have gathered for a private interment at Emanu El Memorial Park in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to the charity of one’s choice, because Don loved giving.

Please visit his online memorial tribute at GeoHLewis. com where fond memories and words of comfort and condolence may be shared electronically with his family.