My mother, Jane Elinor Morrel,  is a noted Illinois poet; her father's sister was the mother of Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain].

I have owned D.C. Writing Graphics and Marketing Research for some years.  My funeral ads were published in newspaper all over the U.S. [I was the Assistant Advertising Director at the Order of the Golden Rule]. Have published articles, short stories; have been a writer for a house organ, newspaper, and the funeral association just referred to.