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Constance Suzanne Brooks Paradiso was born in Washington D.C., to Kerford Southgate Brooks and Nancy Shelor Whitlow. She married Bruce Edmund Paradiso in 1998. She attended Radford College University, in Radford, VA majoring in Merchandising and Marketing. Her career included property and personnel management, commercial sales and business ownership.

Memberships

  • American Patrons of St. George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety, Class of 2030)

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Governor; National Insignia Chair 2014-2016)

  • Descendants of Brian Boru

  • Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776

  • Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Courier and Webmaster; Founding Officer)

  • Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Corresponding Secretary General)

  • Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (1st Deputy Governor 2024-2026)

  • Jamestowne Society (Jamestowne Shoppe Committee Chairman 2019-2027)

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Councilor, Trustee, Nominating Committee)

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Virginia Honorary State President)

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Honorary Chapter President)

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (State Registrar)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Librarian; Chapter Registrar; Chapter Vice Regent)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chapter Registrar; State VIS Committee Co-Chair)

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners (Merchandising Committee 2026-2028)

  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (Wilton Museum Development Committee, Virginia T&C Rep)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Treasurer General)

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State Recording Secretary; Chapter President)

  • Order of Alba (Treasurer General)

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Finance Committee Member)

  • Order of Bacon's Rebellion (Stationer; Webmaster; Co-Founder)

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Chaplain General)

  • Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence

  • Order of Monarchs of Rheims (Chair-The American Project Committee)

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Order of the Descendants of El Cid (Recording Secretary General)

  • Order of the First Families of Maryland

  • Order of the House of Wessex (Treasurer General)

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Governor General 2026-2028)

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Chair-Website Development Committee)

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Sovereign 2026-2028; Parliamentarian; Webmaster)

  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

  • Order of William the Marshal (Councilor; Webmaster)

  • Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva

  • Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (2nd Vice President; Webmaster)

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers

  • The IX

  • Virginia Huguenot Society (President General 2023-2027)

  • The Society of Mareen Duvall Descendants

  • The Descendants of the Templar Knights (BOMC, MOC)

  • Founders Fellowship

Authorships

Historic Sites Marked by Virginia Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

1951-2022, copyright 2023; State President’s Project 2021-2023

 

Produced four booklets on local history as Chairman of the Waynesboro Historical Commission

and available to the public in the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation Museum, Waynesboro, VA.

 

Chivalric Orders

U.S. Priory of the Order of St John

(The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem); Esquire

 

Listed In (Publications)

Local History Book – Co-Editor

A History of Waynesboro, Virginia Vol. 2 (1900-1976)

by George R. Hawke 593 pp.  Jostens. 2007. (Hardcover)

 

Other 

  • Chairman, Waynesboro Historical Commission 2002-2007

  • Chairman, Waynesboro Downtown Development Design Committee 2004-present

  • Chairman, Waynesboro Planning Commission 2010-2018

 

Constance’s society accomplishments include several markings for U.S.D.1812, marking for Colonial Dames XVII Century, newsletters in various societies, some co-authored with Carla Odom, and a book published as State President’s Project in Virginia for Colonial Dames XVII Century. She held various state and chapter offices as Librarian, Recording Secretary, Registrar, Treasurer, Chaplain, Vice President and President. She has also chaired fund raising committees, designing items for sale in several societies including Jamestowne Society, Colonial Dames XVII Century and others. She served as National Insignia Chairman and brought online purchasing to Continental Society of Daughters of Indian Wars. She created and managed several society websites. Paradiso won an award from NSDAR for Website of the Month June 2020. She chaired committees upgrading Merovingian Dynasty, Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon and Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia websites. She was Colonial Dames XVII Century 2nd Vice President of the State Presidents Club 2021-2023.

 

Constance enjoys genealogy, society work, history, website development, interior design and remodeling real estate.

 

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