John Overstreet Spice ’52

John Overstreet Spice ’52 died in San Antonio, Texas, October 21, 2011, of Parkinson’s disease. The San Antonio native owned and operated a complex of shops, gardens, restaurants and event venues until 1998. He was a trained geologist, naturalist and a longtime Anglophile with British business interests. Spice graduated from Jefferson High School in 1948, attended Dartmouth briefly and earned a bachelor’s in geology from Southern Methodist University. He got a master’s in geology from the University of Texas at Austin, briefly worked in the oil industry, but his real career was landscape architecture. John leaves no immediate relatives.



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