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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
* American Descendants
of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 Founding
Member; Insignia Chairman)
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta
* Colonial Dames of America
(Board of Management;
former Chapter XXI
Secretary)
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Texas
State Historian;
Geronimo Chapter Recording Secretary)
* Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and
Antebellum
America
* Dutch Colonial Society (Genealogist General; former
Patroon)
* First Families of Georgia
* First Families of Kentucky
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
(Honorary President
General; Co-editor of the Gazette; former 2nd VPG;
Founding Recording
Secretary General)
* Jamestowne Society (former Company Treasurer)
* National Huguenot Society
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (former
chapter Recording
Secretary; former chapter Auditor)
* National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth
Century
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
* National Society
Daughters of the American Colonists (former TX State
Chaplain; former Chapter Chaplain)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(Honorary
Chapter Regent; former Chapter Registrar)
* National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
(National Publications
Clerk)
* National Society Magna Charta Dames (former Colony
Recording
Secretary)
* National Society of
the Dames of the Court of Honor (former TX Society
Treasurer)
* National Society Sons & Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(Secretary General; Web Mistress; former member of the Advisory
Council)
* National Society Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Editor General;
Honorary TX Branch Governor; former TX Branch Registrar)
* National Society US Daughters of 1812 (former Chapter
Historian)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (2nd
VPG; former Treasurer
General)
* Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (Texas State
Chaplain)
* Order of Descendants
of Colonial Cavaliers
* Order of Descendants of Physicians and Chirurgiens
* Order of the Crown of
Charlemagne in the United States of America
* Order of the First Families of Maryland
* Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1917
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
* Presidential Families of America
* Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
* Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at
Valley Forge
* Sons & Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench
and Bar 1561-
1861 (President General; Web Mistress; former VP General)
* United Daughters of the Confederacy
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. |
