Dorothy Isabell (Miller) Jackson was born April 22, 1905, in Stamford, Connecticut, the daughter of George Sparrow Miller and Elizabeth (Phair) Miller. She passed away in Chico, California, April 2, 2006, three weeks short of her 101st birthday. She married William Cecil Jackson on February 10, 1929 in Reno, Nevada. In 1920, she left Connecticut with her family to reside in Cedarville, Modoc Co., California. After graduating from Surprise Valley Union High School, in Cedarville, she moved to Westwood, California, where she worked for the Red River Lumber Co., and where she met her husband to be. In 1934 they moved to Berkeley, California, there having a son and living until the early 1970's when they moved to the Rossmoor Retirement Community in Walnut Creek, California. She had resided in the Chico, California, Sierra Sunrise Retirement Community since 1996. She was retired from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Life member of the Westwood Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. She was a member of Grace Presbyterian Church in Walnut Creek and worked as a hospital volunteer aide for many years. She is predeceased by her parents, her husband, her sisters Maybeth Phair (Miller) Reynolds and Janis Roberta (Miller) Bishop, and brother George Sparrow Miller, Jr. She is survived by her son, William Kent Jackson, of Chico; grandson Michael Kent Jackson, his wife Julie, and great granddaughters Jennifer Nicole Jackson and Jessica Ann Jackson, of Paradise; grandson Todd Edward Jackson and his wife Debbie, of Walnut Creek; and nieces and nephews.