Background
Carr was born in Greenville, the seat of Washington County in the delta section of western Mississippi, the only child of Joseph Neal Crisler and the former Bessie Esther Gilley.
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Jo Carr
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She graduated from Texas Technical and worked as a professional Girl Scout in the Texas Panhandle.
Career
She served from 1989 to 1993 as superintendent of the Pampa district and in the administrative role of dean of the bishop"s cabinet. The first of those books is entitled Bless This Mess and Other Prayers. Another is The Intentional Family.
Carr left Texas Technical and went on to pastor churches in the South Plains at Cooper, Levelland, and Crosbyton.
She said that she considered herself a "pastor, not a woman pastor.. I think women are called in the same sense that men are called to be pastors.
I think God regards us as people."
"Eventually, she came to love Jo, and that church now has its fourth woman pastor," according to Sisco. Carr died at home. She was cremated.
Carr died ten days after the passing of another Texas Christian writer, Sybil Leonard Armes, who was affiliated with the Baptist Church.
