Mary also manages Made in the Family, featuring vintage collectibles and hand-crafted items curated by Mary. The booth, located in Antique Gallery of Houston, is a family enterprise with Mary and her husband, and cousin collecting, transforming, and creating unique and one-of-a-kind pieces. Custom items can be crocheted, sewn, or created upon request. Plus she provides insightful vision and recommendations for those seeking appropriate gifts for all occasions.

Helping others has been Rosemary Behren’s mantra for as long as she can remember. In working with counseling issues, she enjoys helping others to learn coping skills, move past relationship issues, and see their full potential. She sees significant value in assisting clients coping with chronic pain as they increase their understanding of the difference between acute pain and chronic pain. Rosemary enjoys working with individuals, couples, children and adolescents. She utilizes Cognitive-Behavioral, Adlerian, Family Systems, and Existential theories, and she believes in addressing the whole person encompassing body, mind and spirit. As a licensed professional counselor-supervisor, Rosemary assists counseling interns in accomplishing their goal of becoming counselors.

Sharon attended Stephens College, University of Missouri, and University of Houston, and finally got a degree in journalism at UH. She’s retired now, but that degree led her down a crooked career path. Her first job was as a substitute teacher, which has nothing to do with writing.

After that, she can’t remember them all, so here are a few: copywriter for Skaggs Drug Company, Kansas City, features editor for Ultra magazine in Houston, assistant women’s news editor at the Temple Daily Telegram, women’s feature writer at the Galveston Daily News and the Bellaire Texan. Also, a freelance writer for The Houston Business Journal and The Houston Chronicle. She spent twenty years in public relations, and for three of those wonderful years she freelanced for Leigh Owen when Leigh was a director of marketing with the  Vickie Milazzo Institute. Those are only a few of her jobs. She has finished her first novel (90,000 words), Jack Dare’s Great American Freefall (inspired by a true story). The book isn’t published yet, but if she is extremely lucky, maybe someday it will be.

Gale is an active member of Sugar Land Baptist Church and the National Alliance for Mental Health where she volunteers. She was born in Jamaica and lived on Long Island, NY before moving to Sugar Land, Texas in 2004 where she now resides.

Returning to Houston after her graduation, she pursued a career in sales management. An account executive with ExecuTeam Staffing, Lindsey is soon to celebrate her 20th work anniversary with the company. In May 2021, she was awarded “Employee of the Month” from TRN Staffing, the parent company who acquired ExecuTeam Staffing in October 2019.

Her husband Blake McCrory started college at Texas A&M at College Station and ended with graduation from UCLA. He owns his own marketing company, Ideology. The couple lives in Bellaire with their son and daughter: Brady 16 and Blakely 4 in 2021. Another family member is a black Pomeranian, Paco, who they adopted from Pomeranian Pet Rescue in 2016.

Lindsey has two sisters, two stepsisters, one brother, and lots of nieces and nephews. Even her father and husband come from large families, and that adds many cousins to the mix. They enjoy spending time with all this family, traveling to Galveston to see her father and stepmother plus the family drives to Millican, near Bryan, to visit Blake’s father.

Lindsey’s mother and grandmother were both members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). In searching the Internet for DAR and women’s groups, she discovered HFCW was hosting a Zoom meeting with guest speaker DAR Regent Anthony Startz of Lady Washington Chapter. Lindsey realized that these two organizations had nice members and topics of interest, which fueled her desire to join both organizations. She became a member of HFCW in July 2021. Her Revolutionary War patriot lineage was confirmed and she became a member of DAR in August 2021.

She loves anything outdoors (swimming, hiking, beach, etc.). Other favorite activities, of which there are too many to list, include: genealogy, cooking, gardening, traveling, true crime/documentaries, live music, and more.

Carolyn graduated from Pasadena High School in 1955 and the University of Texas, Austin, in 1959, and married shortly thereafter. The couple were stationed in Morocco where her husband spent two years in the Air Force. They returned to Coleman in central West Texas where she taught elementary school for six years.

In 1977, she moved back to Pasadena and joined the family business where she

worked for 34 years. After 60 years in business, Tucker Hardware was closed in 2011.

A previous member and international secretary of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority, Carolyn also served as president of Soroptimist International of Pasadena, a service organization. She was recognized as a Woman of Excellence at the 2000 Federation of Houston Professional Women Gala. She feels honored to be recently accepted into the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lady Washington Houston chapter.

Carolyn became interested in presidential libraries when she attended the annual hardware market in Atlanta, Georgia with her mother. They toured the library of President James E. “Jimmy” Carter. Thus began her mother’s collection of presidential plates, which Carolyn now proudly possesses. The other presidential libraries she has visited include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush and found each different and intriguing.

Quite a change from her Texas surrounding, the couple moved to Indonesia. There she worked with ex-pats to establish a Christmas bazaar supporting the national school. Texas drew her home again, and with a friend, she developed the Sterling Rose. It specialized in sterling jewelry and unique stone-bead jewelry.

Her next move was to Navasota, where she became involved with the Navasota Theatre Alliance. Shelia served on the board and even helped design sets. She excelled at designing and making costumes.

After moving to Georgetown, Texas with another friend they developed the Cotton Candy Cowgirls.

Now retired, Shelia is heavily involved in pulling together her new home’s custom interior and her bountiful garden in Dayton, Texas.

Leigh is a member of the Houston Book Arts Guild, Houston Calligraphy Guild, and the Houston Visual Journalers. She is a lifetime member of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts and chaired their advisory board. She loves collage, journals daily, and writes personal essays and haiku.

She is a member of the Lady Washington chapter, the largest DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) chapter in the world. Her genealogy studies revealed that her great, great, great uncle William E. Summers fought and died at the Alamo.

A graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, her first real job was in book publishing and it became her lifelong career. Leigh has three decades of book publishing and marketing experience. She began by designing books and handling their production and printing for Gulf Publishing Company then focused on marketing books and educational training for Vickie Milazzo Institute.

Leigh and Tim, both native Texans, live in a brick bungalow in the Houston Heights. Avid birders, they love traveling Texas back roads. Their marriage has been celebrated together at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio for 42 years in an unbroken line.

Leigh is often told, “You know things!”

In 2010, after almost 35 years as a dental hygienist, I left private practice and became a full-time educator. I was instrumental in assisting the formation of the Dental Hygiene Program at Houston Community College, Coleman Campus. My role was in development in both didactic and clinical areas. While teaching full-time at HCC, I challenged myself to work toward a master’s degree in Health Sciences with a concentration on Education. After achieving this accomplishment in 2012, I took a less stressful role as adjunct faculty in the Dental Hygiene Department at Lone Star College in Kingwood.

I am actively seeking new relationships in new areas where I can use my skills and learn new things.

Before moving to the countryside, Chris was president of the National Association of Women Business Owners - Houston Chapter, Mystery Writers of America – Houston Chapter and Houston Focus on Concerns for Women. She also served on the board of the Greater Houston Speakers Association.

The family moved to Houston when she was 17. She worked as a clerk typist in a clinical lab. She next worked as a secretary to an architect who built schools and churches in Hawaii, and later for a Chief Engineer at Dresser Industries. She worked for attorneys in various sectors of law, including becoming office manager for a criminal/tax attorney as his office manager.  She attended night school at the University of Houston for three years, majoring in liberal arts.

Carol enjoyed working as a legal assistant in intellectual property law, her preferred field of law, for more than 25 years. She married twice and both husbands are deceased. She has traveled to 17 countries, sung with several Sweet Adelines choruses, the Memphis City Sound Chorus in 1956 and '57, Port of Harmony, and the Houston Horizon Chorus. She has competed in quartets in regional competitions and has coached quartets. In addition to singing and playing piano, she spends time playing duplicate bridge, collecting art, and listening to new pop and modern jazz.