Warren L. Culpepper

Publisher of Culpepper Connections!
Family History Website

A fourth-generation Atlantan, and sixth generation Georgian, I was born in Atlanta in 1942. However, from kindergarten through high school, I lived in the small south Alabama town of Andalusia where my father owned an electrical construction business which was directed at improving the electrification of the rural south.

In high school, I had a ham radio license (K4LNQ) and enjoyed building radio equipment and talking to folks around the world. That's something like my current avocation of building this web site and communicating with cousins from all over.

In 1964, I received a degree in math and economics from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. After graduation, I moved to Nashville where I worked in the actuarial department of a life insurance company.

In Nashville, I met and married my dear, but now deceased, first wife, Suzanne Hooper. Three years after our marriage, we moved to Atlanta, I became a systems engineer with IBM, and our two children, both sons, were born there. Later, I took a job with one of the first computer software companies, Insurance Systems of America, and spent most of the 1970's working there.

In 1979, I went into business for myself, becoming a management consultant to software companies. Over time, I evolved away from consulting and built a business which conducts salary surveys for the technology industry.

In 1997, Lew Griffin and I launched The Culpepper Connections website. (More about the launch)

In 2005, I retired from my business, Culpepper and Associates, and turned the operational responsibilities over to my son, Leigh, who is now its President/CEO. I remain involved only as a quite inactive Chairman of the Board.

Those who have studied Culpepper English history know that the male Culpeppers had a long history of marrying well. It appears from the record that none of the early Culpeppers did anything else nearly so important as having married the right woman. And certainly that was true for my grandfather and father, although, in their cases, this had nothing to do with marrying into wealth.

Continuing in my grandfather's and father's tradition, I was blessed to be married in 1995 to Dr. Cathryn Lee Thrasher. Lee is a psychologist with a private counseling practice in Jasper and Sandy Springs.

Shortly after our marriage, Lee and I relocated from Atlanta to Big Canoe, about 50 miles above Atlanta in the north Georgia mountains. We spent the next eleven years there, but in 2006, a growing gang of grandchildren (see photo below) pulled us back to Atlanta to be closer to them and our children. We are also blessed to have four of our five siblings living in the Atlanta area. We've kept the mountain home for a vacation retreat, but most of our time is now spent in Atlanta. Our home is in a small neighborhood called The Arbors at Lenox Park, about a mile east of Phipps Plaza and Lenox Square.

The Culpeppers and Thrashers, Christmas 2007, Atlanta

In the photo above, from left to right...
The Grandchildren: Nathan, Ashlynne, Daphne, Jenna, Mac (behind Jenna) and Brock
Seated in the middle with three gandchildren in our laps -- Warren and Lee Thrasher Culpepper
Back row:

1&2  Leigh and Elaine Culpepper: Leigh is my son and CEO of Culpepper and Associates; Elaine is a  Mary Kay representative; they are the parents of Nathan, Ashlynne and Jenna (the 3 kids in red).

3&4  Grady and Amanda Thrasher: Grady is Lee's son and an attorney; Amanda is a Realtor; they are the parents of Brock and Mac (the boys on the right).

5&6  Kelly and Adrienne Thrasher: Kelly is Lee's son and a physician; Adrienne is my God daughter and an attorney; they are the parents of little Daphne and another on the way (baby Vivienne Page "Vivi" Thrasher was born March 11, 2008).

Warren and his Golden Retrievers: Rusty (10 weeks) and Peggy, August 2007
Photo taken in Lenox Park, near our home in Atlanta

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