[4] Years later, during depths of the Great Depression, Crowley was divorced (her first husband was Carter), with two children, Don and Ruth.
[4][7][8] By 1962, Crowley and her daughter Ruth were running Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc., when the company's sales reached its first million dollars.
[citation needed] In 1977, Crowley was one of twenty business owners invited to meet President Jimmy Carter in the White House.
According to the Texas Monthly, the "millionairess" owned "a Dallas mansion, two Lear jets, and a Colorado mountain retreat.
[17][8] Crowley encouraged a nondenominational faith among employees, urging them to put "God first, family second, career third.
[22] Crowley, who owned a mink-covered Bible, used mink briefcases and coats as sales incentives in a system analogous to the Mary Kay Pink Cadillacs.
[24] Crowley was divorced from her first husband and had reared her son, Don Carter, and daughter, Ruth, as a single mother.