During her lifetime she was a member of the Presbyterian Women's leadership, representing Louisiana, and traveling to their annual national meeting in New York City.
[7] Connell is the subject of a one-woman play, Louisiana Women: Clyde written by Lake Charles playwright Carolyn Woosley.
Years later she recorded this night music with intricate calligraphic notations on large rolls of brown paper, which she called her "swamp songs."
[5] Connell often applied broken pieces of metal, tools, or other found objects that her son Bryan brought to her by the truckload.
Her yard, studio, and home were littered with completed compositions, works in progress, and scraps that eventually found their way into her sculpture.