She worked as a researcher for the global business magazine Fortune in New York from 1952 to 1967, when she returned to North Carolina to marry the politician Lauch Faircloth.
[1] Her family moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1931, where her father took a job at her grandfather's insurance company.
[3] Soon after graduating from Hollins, Faircloth was hired as a researcher with the editorial staff of Fortune, a global business magazine based in New York.
[2] She served on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Symphony but, in the 1970s, left due to a disagreement with spending policies.
[1] She and her siblings managed the Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Family Foundation, founded by her parents.
[5] In 1967, she married the farmer and political consultant Duncan McLauchlin "Lauch" Faircloth in a private ceremony, officiated by Rev.