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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), as well as several grandchildren.
She completed her undergraduate degree work at
Campbell College and is
currently an Executrix, Co-Trustee and General Partner
for her extended family. Mrs. Odom is a retired
Artist and Consultant.
Memberships
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum
Bench and Bar
(Vice President General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Bicknell
Scholarship
Chairman; Virginia Branch Governor)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(Secretary General)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(Former
Representative VAVS; Virginia Veteran Chairman; former Virginia
District
Chaplain; Honorary Chapter Regent)
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607–1783
(Recording
Secretary General)
* Hereditary Society Daughters of Founding Fathers of
America (Founding
Vice President General)
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812
(former Virginia
Chaplain; former Chapter Vice-President)
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
(Historian General;
Honorary Governor of the District of Columbia Society)
* United Daughters of the Confederacy (former Chapter
Vice-President)
* National Society of New England Women (Virginia Colony
Chaplain)
*
National Society
Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
* National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of
America
(former Councillor; National Officers Club - First Vice President; Virginia
State President)
* Colonial Dames of America
* National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor (former Virginia
State
Librarian)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
(former Chairman
Radio & Television; Virginia Honorary State Regent; Honorary
Chapter
Regent)
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Virginia
Recording Secretary)
* National Huguenot Society (former Virginia State
President)
* National Society Southern Dames of America (Organizing
State President)
* Society of the
Descendants of the Founding Fathers of New England
* Flagon and Trencher, Descendants of Colonial Tavern
Keepers
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* Heredity Order of the First Families of Massachusetts,
Inc.
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
* Order of First Families of North Carolina (Member of
the Board of
Directors)
* Presidential Families of America
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.
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. Her NSDAC State Regent’s Project was the
commission of a pair of oil paintings currently
exhibited in the Visitors Center at Jamestowne in
celebration of the Quada-Centennial. This artist came
out of retirement recently to restore a large, fragile,
marble plaque that had in the early 20th
century been dedicated in Richmond, Virginia by USD 1812
to Masons’ Hall, the site of a War of 1812 Hospital. |
