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Mrs. Charles Robert Odom
(Carla Lucille Whitehurst)
Carla
Lucille Whitehurst Odom, a native of North Carolina,
is the daughter of Paul Donald Whitehurst and A. Lucille
Martin Whitehurst.
Mrs. Odom is married to LTC Charles Robert Odom, USA
(Ret.) and has two daughters,
Charlotte Martin Odom Lytle Perrin (Mrs. David Courtney,
Jr.) and Catherine Lynne Odom Quick (Mrs. Kenneth
Douglas), and three grandsons.
She completed her undergraduate degree work at
Campbell College and is
currently a Co-Trustee and General Partner
for her extended family. Mrs. Odom is a retired
business owner, artist and consultant.
Memberships
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* Colonial Dames of America (Charter Member, Georgia
Piedmont Chapter,
XXXIII)
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars,
(former Chaplain General;
Honorary Governor, District of Columbia Society; Associate Member,
Virginia Society)
* Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial and
Antebellum America (Charter Member)
* Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
* Flagon and Trencher Descendants of Colonial Tavern
Keepers
* Guild of Colonial Artisans & Tradesmen 1607-1783
(former Recording
Secretary General)
* Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists
and Patriots of the
American Revolution (Deputy Registrar General)
* Hereditary Order of the First Families of
Massachusetts, Inc.
* Hereditary Society Daughters of Founding Fathers of
America (Founding
Vice President General)
* Military Order of the Crusades
* National Gavel Society
* National
Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
* National Huguenot Society (former President, Virginia
Society)
* National Order of the Blue and Grey
* National Society Children of the American Colonists
(Life Promoter)
* National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century
(former
Corresponding Secretary, Richmond Chapter)
* National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth
Century
(President; Organizing First Vice President, Crown Colony Chapter,
Organizing Member, Oglethorpe Chapter)
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars in the
Commonwealth of
Virginia (Recording Secretary)
* National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of
America (former
Councillor; President, National Officers’ Club;
Honorary President, Virginia
Chapter)
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
(former Chairman,
Radio and Television; National State Regents’ Club; Honorary
Regent,
Virginia Society; Honorary Regent, Fort Henry Chapter)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former
Representative, VAVS and Veteran Chairman Virginia Society; former
Chaplain, District II; Honorary Regent, Colonel John Banister
Chapter;
Charter Member, Heritage Club; former Chaplain of the Virginia
Cameo
Club)
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* National Society of New England Women (former
Chaplain, Virginia Colony;
Member, District of Columbia Colony)
* National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
* National Society of Saints and Sinners
* National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
(former Librarian,
Virginia Society; Member of the North Carolina Society)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(President General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(former Bicknell
Scholarship Chairman; Honorary Governor, Virginia Branch)
* National Society Southern Dames of America (National
Registrar;
Organizing
Honorary President, Virginia Society; Associate Member,
Southport Chapter, North Carolina Society)
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812
(former Chaplain,
Virginia Society; former Vice President, Hampton Roads Chapter)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
(Council)
* Order of First Families of North Carolina (Secretary)
* Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Co-founder; First Vice Justiciar)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United State
of America
* Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
* Order of the First World War
* Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692
(Charter Member)
* Order of the Honorable Artillery Company
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
* Order of the Second World War
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Recording Secretary
General)
* Order of Washington
* Plymouth Hereditary Society
* Presidential Families of America
* Society of Descendants of Charlemagne
* Society of Knights Templar Descendants
* Society of the Descendants of Founding Fathers of New
England
* Sons and Daughters of Colonial and Antebellum Bench
and Bar 1585-1861
(Vice President General)
* United Daughters of the Confederacy (former
Parliamentarian, Charter
Member, Chesterfield Chapter; former First Vice President
Petersburg
Chapter)
* Virginia Huguenot Society (former Registrar)
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary
International named Carla Odom as a Paul Harris Fellow.
She was a recipient of the
Winnie Davis Medal awarded by the United Daughters of
Confederacy, the 2009 Special Award
by the National Society Daughters of Founders and
Patriots of America,
and Chartering Award by the National Society
Southern Dames of America.
Chivalric Orders
* Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem
(Priory
of St. Thomas
a` Becket, Dame Chevaleresse)
Other Notes
Mrs. Odom
and her husband are members of Saint Paul's Episcopal
Church, Petersburg, Virginia. She is former President
of the Protestant Women of the Chapel at historic Mark
Twain Village Chapel, Heidelberg, Germany. She and her
family were presented the Family Life Award as Family
of the Year. She is former President of the Byrd
Family Association and former Vice President of the
Board of Directors for the Petersburg Music Festival.
Mrs. Odom served the American Red Cross as a volunteer
both in military hospitals and assisting in local blood
drives. As a Troop Leader for Girls Scouts of the USA
she coordinated or assisted activities for
Brownies, Juniors and Seniors in six countries. She has
served as a volunteer at Veteran Medical Centers
in Virginia.
The Odoms live in Colonial Heights, Virginia and Durham,
North Carolina. She enjoys genealogy, and floral
exhibiting. She is the former President of two local
Garden Clubs
and a life member of the Garden Club of Virginia.
Her
NSDAC State Regent’s project was the commission of a
pair of paintings by Jamestown artist Carolina Taylor.
They are exhibited in the Visitors Center at Jamestown
Island.
To commemorate her service VA Daughters
marked Meander Plantation at Locust, VA.
She restored a fragile marble
plaque as her gift to Mason’s Hall. The plaque had in
the early 20th century been dedicated in
Richmond by Virginia USD 1812 to the site that also
served as a War of 1812 hospital. At the conclusion of
Mrs. Odom’s term as Governor the DC Society of CSDIW
marked the grave of Chief Pushmataha at the
Congressional Cemetery. During her administration, the NSSDAP project was the casting of an official
die for bronze markers. She dedicated the first marker
to Historic Stagville at Durham, NC. |
