Becoming the Admiral’s Wife: A Dual Memoir of a Called Pair

In this memoir, Cecily Watson Kelln leaves the comforts of her childhood “Cackleberry Farm” to face womanhood and adventures as she searches for love and security. Faced with divorce, rejection and despair, it is her mother’s exemplary Christian faith that keeps her hopeful about life.

This is a true story which takes the reader through many exotic experiences, such as two years in Peru with the Peace Corps, a cold winter in a tent, and a psychedelic baptism. Becoming the Admiral’s Wife is an alluring testimony of the author’s search to know God, and how she eventually finds Him in several dramatic encounters with Jesus Christ.

By God’s mercy and grace, she unexpectedly meets a loving Christian man, a retired Rear Admiral, who is thirteen years her senior. The two fall in love, court, and marry. The book is called a dual memoir because chronological excerpts of his fast-track career in the early years of the nuclear Navy are sprinkled throughout. Their combined story illustrates the power of a Christ-centered marriage and inspires readers to patiently trust in God’s divine plan for their own lives.