Carla C. Kerr
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Carla C. Kerr was born Carla Christine
Crittenden in Blackwell, Oklahoma. Her father was of Cherokee Indian
heritage, and Carla is 1/16 Cherokee ("1/16 degree of Indian blood", as they
say formally).
Over the years, Carla has lived in many states, and attended Las Vegas (Nevada) High school ("when there was only one", she points out.) She has worked at almost every job imaginable, including manicurist; office administrator; cocktail waitress, bartender, and supper club owner; sales of cosmetics and funeral services; and service adviser and sales of new trucks for a major auto dealership.
Her last full-time job before her "retirement" was as Senior Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management of Meeting Professionals International, the Dallas-based professional organization for professionals in the meeting and convention planning world.
Carla is the former (founding) Queen Mum of Classic Elegance Red Hatters, a chapter of The Red Hat Society, a social order for women over 50, and is active today in the Wild West Women of Weatherford chapter. She is former Director of Volunteers for For the Love of the Lake, a Dallas conservancy organization devoted to the preservation and enhancement of White Rock Lake and the surrounding park. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parker County Women's and Newcomers' Club, and edits and publishes their monthly newsletter.
She is an experienced quilt maker, and completes her quilts in-house, using a fully-automated "mid-arm" quilting machine that was designed, integrated, and assembled by her husband Doug based on available commercial subsystems.
Carla has three children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren (exactly how many depending on how one chooses to interpret the "dotted lines" on the family organizational chart).
She is a skilled writer in various genres, and an exacting proofreader and copy editor. Her memoir, The Cherokee Advantage, written under her maiden name, C. C. Crittenden, has been published through Lulu Press. It is available here:
The Cherokee Advantage at Lulu
Carla and her husband Doug live in Weatherford, Texas, "where the West begins", about 25 miles west of Fort Worth.
Carla's Web site is here:
You can access her blog from there.
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