Karen Angel, founder of the JIMMIE ANGEL HISTORICAL PROJECT (JAHP) and the President of the JAHP Board of Directors, is the daughter of Jimmie Angel’s youngest brother Clyde Marshall Angel (1917-1997).
Karen writes, “When I was about eight years old, my father presented me with a beautifully wrapped gift. I was disappointed to find that the wrappings contained an empty album. He told me that my task was to collect and keep the Angel Family History, especially the history of his oldest brother Jimmie Angel. It troubled him that there were many stories about his brother that were not true and other stories that did not seem plausible to him. I must have disappointed my father by not taking up the task when he gave me the album.