First Lady Edith Roosevelt and Her Husband Teddy

First Lady Edith Roosevelt and Her Husband Teddy

Carolyn’s road to Pasadena, Texas from Memphis, Tennessee was long and circuitous. The family found its way in 1951 and became Texans.  Her father opened a hardware store in Pasadena where both parents worked.

Carolyn graduated from Pasadena High School 1955 and The University of Texas in Austin in 1959. She moved to the Central West Texas town of Coleman where she taught elementary school.

In 1977, she returned with her only child, a son, and joined the family hardware business. After the deaths of her parents and 60 years later, Tucker Hardware was closed in 2011.

She served as International Secretary of Epsilon Alpha Sorority as well as the Delta Iota chapter President and Texas State Recording Secretary. She also served as President of Soroptimist International of Pasadena and was honored as a Woman of Excellence at the 2000 Federation of Houston Professional Women Gala.

Carolyn’s deep interest in Presidential Libraries began when she and her mother attended the hardware market in Atlanta, Georgia. While there, they toured the Library of President James E. “Jimmy” Carter and her mother started a collection of Presidential Plates, which Carolyn now proudly possesses. The other libraries she visited are: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.