Sister Tess is the BIGGEST and OLDEST of the Palm Springs Sisters. Born in Southern California's olden times, when musical disks were made of Bakelite that had to be played at 78 RPM, television was black and white, and gasoline was sold at full service stations for 12 cents a gallon. She grew up, in the Upper Mojave Desert, as the offspring of a politically conservative aerospace family. Formally trained as an Industrial Designer she spent 27 years working on classified implements of mass destruction. (Psst...the government was never able to find them!)
As her name implies she has a proclivity for the male reproductive organs and is not shy about groping people at the first introduction. She often wears large fuzzy purple balls on her habit as an indicator of her interests.
She is happily partnered to Sister Nellianne Manly with whom she shares a charming 1980's tract home in the cultural wasteland of the Antelope Valley. Her house is usually a flurry of creative activity, most of the time, but if it weren't for that nagging bitch Nelli, she wouldn't be able to get her act together .
Her hobbies include knitting colorful scrotum cozies, origami penis folding, mechanical rubber toys and generally making things pretty.
Her initial involvement with the Sisters began in the Los Angeles house, giving the girls support in various ways. She was canonized with the name "Saint Kelly of the Purple Hankie" by the LA house, because of her service to the house and her love of body jewelry.
It was the example of the LA sisters, and watching visiting sisters to LA that sparked her interest in becoming a Sister and a founding member of the Palm Springs house.