Cele Community Center clerk

The Cele Community Center clerk is a fictional retail clerk and a minor character featured in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film franchise. She is part of the continuity of the remake series and appeared in the 2003 film version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She was played by actress Mamie Meek.

Biography
This unidentified elderly woman lived in Fuller, Texas during the 1970s. She worked at the Cele Community Center off Route 17, which was a gas station and general store. In August, 1973, a group of five youths came into the store in a state of duress. A man named Kemper informed the old woman that a teenage girl had committed suicide in the back of their van. The old woman declared that "when something like this comes along", she said, "...it makes you realize how crazy the world is at times". Kemper asked her to dial the local sheriff and she told him that doing so would cost him 10 cents.

Using the telephone behind the counter, the woman called whom she believed to be the sheriff, which was actually a man named Charlie Hewitt. She gave him the location of the incident as told to her by Kemper, which occurred some five miles west of their location. After hanging up, she told Kemper and his friends that the sheriff would be tied up for the next two hours and that he asked if they wouldn't mind driving the body to the Old Crawford Mill. Kemper was flabbergasted and his friend Morgan made some sarcastically rude comments in the woman's direction. Kemper angrily stated that he was not going to drive around town with a dead girl in the back of his van, to which she replied, "Young man, what you do is your own business". Frustrated, the men left the store.

Notes & Trivia



 * It is unclear whether the old woman was the proprietor of the Cele Community Center, or just an employee.


 * The clerk is the fourth female character to appear in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, after Erin, Pepper and the teenage girl who commits suicide.


 * The clerk does not really have any sort of counterpart in the original film. However, Drayton Sawyer, who was the head of the Sawyer family, also ran the town's general store.


 * The store clerk was a smoker. At the time era in which this story takes place, it was not uncommon for people to smoke in their place of business.