ELEANOR CLARK
Author,
lecturer, and businessperson, Eleanor Clark is a uniquely
creative Christian communicator. Eleanor was born Eleanor Jo
Bozeman on February 10, 1932 to Christian parents in a small
central Texas town of Thornton. Her parents, for whom she was
named, Eleanor and Joe Bozeman, gave her a wonderful Christian
heritage and taught her the love of Jesus by living exemplary
lives before her.
After graduating from Teague High
School with a four year perfect attendance record, she achieved further
education at Navarro Jr. College, University of Houston, and
LaSalle University, and she was the first woman graduate at
the Financial Institute of Memphis. She studied nursing, law,
and finance with a specialty in charitable estate planning.
She was initiated into two National Honor Societies, Psi Beta,
and Phi Theta Kappa. Eleanor was named in Who’s Who, and she
was selected by her college professors and named National
Collegiate Award winner in the field of business, management,
and psychology. Some of the other special awards that she has
received are Woman of the Year, Teague High School
Distinguished Alumna, Lone Star Leader, Texas Round Table,
Million Dollar Roundtable, and her picture appeared in
Newsweek as the only woman in the top ten of national
sales.
Eleanor has been
married to Lee Carlton Clark for more than fifty years, and is
the mother of five children, fourteen grandchildren, and two
great grandchildren. Eleanor was the oldest of three
children; her siblings were a younger sister and brother.
Not only has
Eleanor been a devoted wife, wonderful mother, and successful
businessperson, but also she has been very active in her
church. In addition, she has participated in community, civic
and political services. She has been a Sunday school teacher,
Pastor Parish Committee Chair, and served on the Finance
Committees for the churches that she has attended. She has
served on local, state, and national boards either as
President or on the Finance Committee. She has raised
millions of dollars that benefit charities, climbed the
corporate ladder in a man’s world, and built her own financial
planning business at Waterway Towers, Las Colinas, a suburb of
Dallas. For about seven years, Eleanor appeared on
television, and she has lectured in most major cities of the
United States.
After retiring, she volunteered her services for more than ten
years to the non-profit corporation that she and her husband
co-founded. Chief Executive Officer was her duty at that corporation.
She built and managed the institution to care for the elderly
without their ability to pay. In addition to taking care of
the elderly, she worked with the legislature that introduced a
bill to Congress. The President signed this bill into law in
1996, and the bill benefited one of the poorest counties in
Texas with approximately $980,000.
“Someday you
will write Children’s books,” a mentor once said in late
1968. After attending a nine-month long Bible study in 2003,
Eleanor felt led by the Holy Sprit to write the Little
Glowliving Book Series about an imaginary town,
Glowtown, USA. The Little Glowliving Book series
portray vision and values to little children, and the
collection is filled with wisdom, culture, charm, and
sophistication. Glowing for Jesus is the theme in all of the
little books. In addition to writing The Little Glowliving
Books collection, she reads to little children dressed in
the finery of the character, Lady Faithglow. Eleanor’s vision
is to pass down to other generations the love of Jesus.
