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William W Mowbray

Mr. Mowbray joined the Board of FREEDOM HOUSE in March, 2007. In addition to being a Board member, he functions as its Chief Financial Officer. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mowbray Group, Inc., a national management consulting firm which specializes in corporate cost containment strategies. He was a senior executive with Factory 2-U Stores, serving as Chief Executive Officer from 1995 – 1997 and as Chief Financial Officer from 1991 – 1995.

Previously, he held senior executive positions with several retail companies including Casfam, Inc., Clothestime, Inc., Marshalls, Inc., Lucky Stores, Inc. and others. In all he spent over 35 years in the retail industry.

He attended Northern Arizona University where he studied finance and economics.


Barbara Macnamara

Barbara is the mother of a 22 year old daughter Kellcie who is a survivor of a traumatic brain injury. Barbara has also had to deal with the recent death of her husband; through this with him having a surgery to have one lung removed due to a massive amount of tumors and additionally having a brain tumor; John underwent 7 brain surgeries in all not counting the numerous other surgeries.

During this time both her husband John and her eldest daughter Kellcie were in two different hospitals and she was given news that her home in Descanso had blown up and there was absolutely nothing left. She determined that there was nothing she could do about it at the time and went on to fight for the lives of her husband and daughter. John is survived by Barbara and his two daughters Kellcie and Page.

In addition Barbara and Kellcie both suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis. Page is struggling with her own difficulties where at one time she had to drop out of school to help Barbara with the medical issues surrounding them at home. Page has since graduated from high school but is still care-giver to her sister Kellcie. For Barbara this was a journey for her to again ask God back into her life.