The current
president of the Texas
Publishers Association was born
and raised in Josephine Texas.
She is the daughter of Isaiah &
Luverter Clark and the
thirteenth child of fifteen
siblings. At the tender age of
fifteen she found herself
married, and by the time she was
twenty years old she found
herself the mother of five
children.
In 1971 she
attended Cosmetology School and
went on to be a Cosmetology
Instructor. She worked as a
Cosmetologist until a serious
illness caused her to give up
that career. She is featured in
“Who’s who among American
Business Women, and was invited
to the State Capitol for tea
with then Governor Ann Richards
and was the first owned and
operated Black business in
Farmersville.
Mrs. Kelly became
very involved in her community;
she started the Farmersville
NAACP. She worked with the
Farmersville Human Relations
Committee, and she served
several years with The North
Texas Job Corps Human Relations
Committee. Ms. Kelly has won
numerous awards for her
dedication and service to her
community and surrounding areas.
In 1995 God gave
Mrs. Kelly a new career, The
Power Pages News, a newspaper
that gives glory and honor to
God, and a profession that has
brought great joy into her life
and the lives of many others.
Mrs. Kelly
accepted her call into the
ministry in 2001; she attended
Servant Hood Ministries where
she was Ordained a licensed
minister of the gospel.
Minister Kelly
serves at the McKinney First
Baptist Church in McKinney Texas
under the leadership of Pastor
Lee A. Edwards, and is President
and CEO of H.K. Ministries.
Minister Kelly is the proud
grandmother of eight and
great-grandmother of nine.