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LTC Charles Robert Odom
Charles
Robert Odom, a native of North Carolina,
is the only child of Guilford Ennis Odom and Effie
Casandra Nash Odom. LTC Odom is married to
Carla
Lucille Whitehurst Odom,
and has two daughters,
Charlotte Martin Odom Lytle Perrin (Mrs. David Courtney,
Jr.) and Catherine Lynne Odom Quick (Mrs. Kenneth
Douglas), and three grandsons.
LTC Odom earned his BS from
Campbell College and
MBA from
Troy State University. He graduated from
Officer Candidate School; the Quartermaster Officers Career Course;
and the US Army Command and General Staff College.
He is
a retired US Army Officer, and a veteran of the Vietnam
War. LTC Odom's distinguished military career
in the Army included that as Supply Office; Assistant
Depot Commander; an Engineering and
Service Test Officer; Assistant Secretary to the General
Staff; Company Commander; Chief of Protocol; Assistant
Professor Military Science; Guest Lecturer; Staff
Officer; Director for Army Auditors’ and Major
Items Management Courses. In addition, LTC Odom is a
former Systems Analyst with Computer Sciences Corporation,
and GED Instructor.
Society Memberships
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Governor General;
Honorary Virginia Branch Governor)
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum
Bench and Bar 1565–
1861 (Chaplain General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Antebellum
Planters 1607–
1861 (Councilor)
* National Gavel Society
* Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York
* General Society Sons of the Revolution
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution
* General Society of Colonial Wars (Membership in the
Virginia Society)
* General Society of the War of 1812
* Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States of
America
* Order of Washington
* Order of the Indian Wars in the United States
* Sons of Confederate Veterans
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
* Military Order of the World Wars
* Sons of Spanish American War Veterans (associate
member)
* National Society Sons of the American Colonists
* Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists and Patriots
American Revolution
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
*
Order of the First World War
*
Order of the Second World War
*
Order of the Honorable Artillery Company
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
* Virginia Huguenot Society (Honorary Member)
LTC Odom is a life member of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, Washington
Camp #1
Other Notes
Charles Robert Odom and his family were awarded the
Family Life Award as Family of the Year by the
Coats Women’s Club. He is a Rotarian, former
President of the Colonial Heights Club and a Paul Harris
Fellow. Odom is former Chairman of the Board of the
Fort Rucker School Association, member of the Board of
Visitors of Mary Baldwin College and for many years
Class Agent for Campbell University. He is a former
member of the Petersburg Music Festival Chorus
and Vice
President, Board of Directors of the Crater Community
Hospice. LTC Odom is
former President of the Chapel Council at Mark Twain
Village Chapel, Heidelberg, Germany, Junior Warden of
St. Paul Episcopal Church, Petersburg, VA and Chairman
of the Board of Deacons at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
in Colonial Heights, VA. He is a member of the Army and
Navy Club of Washington, DC and the Umstead Pines Club
of Durham, NC. Hobbies include genealogy, singing and
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