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Karen Elizabeth McCandless McClendon
Karen Elizabeth McCandless McClendon, a sixth-generation native of
Texas,
is the daughter of
H. R. McCandless, Jr. and
Ruth King McCandless
She has three children:
Lisa Lynn Lair, Leslie
Ann Murray and John Kevin McClendon, Esq., as well as
five
grandchildren.
Ms.
McClendon
completed her undergraduate degree as well as her
Masters in Education at
West Texas A & M University
and enjoyed a teaching career in secondary education,
specifically teaching English and Art.
Memberships
* National Gavel Society
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
(President General;
Founding Recording Secretary General)
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench
and Bar 1561-
1861 (President General)
* American Descendants of the House of Burgesses
1619-1699 (Founding
Member; Insignia Chairman)
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Treasurer
General)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
* Colonial Dames of America Former Chapter XXI
(Board of Management;
former Chapter XXI Secretary)
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers
* Order of Ancient Planters
* Jamestowne Society (former Company Treasurer)
* Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century (former
Chapter Registrar)
* Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
* Daughters of Colonial Wars
* United Daughters of the Confederacy
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
(Texas State
Chaplain; Chapter Chaplain)
* National Society Dames of the Court of Honor
(Texas Society Treasurer)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Editor General;
Texas Branch Governor)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(Councilor General)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former Chapter
Regent and Registrar)
* National Society US Daughters of 1812 (former Chapter
Historian)
* Presidential Families of America
* Dutch Colonial Society (Genealogist General)
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
* National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (former D-FW
Colony
Recording Secretary)
* Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
(Publications Clerk
General)
* Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at
Valley Forge
* First Families of Georgia 1733-1797
* First Families of Kentucky
* Order of the First Families of Maryland
* Order of the First Families of Mississippi
1699-1817
Mrs. McClendon is a recipient of the SAR Medal of Appreciation.
Other Notes
Ms.
McClendon has been affiliated with Dallas Heritage
Village for over twenty-five years as a docent and fund
raiser. She is a member of the First Unitarian
Church of Dallas.
Her interests include antiques, art, bridge, history,
music, reading, theater and travel (in addition to her
passion for genealogy). Ms. McClendon has written
numerous articles for lineage society publications; is active in
three women’s clubs, two antiques clubs and a book club,
and is a member of the Franklin County Tennessee
Historical Society. |
