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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,
(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
(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; First Vice President, National Officers’ Club;
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)
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* National Society of New England Women (former
Chaplain, Virginia Colony)
* National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
* National Society of Saints and Sinner
* National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
(former Librarian, |
Virginia 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 (Organizing
President,
Virginia 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
* Order of First Families of North Carolina (Secretary)
* 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 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)
In addition, Mrs. Odom 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.
Other Notes
Mrs. Odom
and her husband are members of Saint Paul 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
Caroline Taylor. They are exhibited in the Visitors
Center at Jamestown Island. 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” |
