A woman who was born into extreme poverty and despair, she was able to generate hope and stimulate a wealth of love. She was a woman who was forced into debilitating and compromising position to support her family. She was a woman who raised seven children alone until the Lord sent her gallant king, Tabard Jackson, along. She was a woman who defiled the law of gravity and refused to sink into the oblivion, despite the weight of the world on her shoulders. She was a woman who never gave up, a woman whose strength could only be depicted as miraculous. She was a woman who never forgot her origin, who dealt with life"s sporadic nonentity with grace and dignity. She was a woman who affirmed and validated her children as worthy and righteous individuals, even amid life"s menacing struggles.