This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/7622 Message Board Post: DAHLIA ELISA CARTER JACKSON, first child of Cecil Lloyd Carter and Madline Victoria Hinds Carter (deceased in 1988), was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama on November 2, 1957. She pursued studies in schools in Panama which culminated with graduation from the School of Nursing at The University of Panama. She then traveled to the United States where she received further training in her chosen field, graduating from Texas Woman's University at its Houston Campus. Dahlia was a cradle Episcopalian and was very active in her church during all of her life. On July 30, 1983, Dahlia was joined in Holy Matrimony to Danny Lee Jackson, under the Rights of the Baptist Church. The marriage was further blessed in the Episcopal Church on December 30, 1983. Dahlia practiced her profession at several medical institutions in the Greater Houston Area, and at the time of her death was a Patient Advocate at Ben Taub General Hospital. After an abnormal heart rhythm, Dahlia was called to res! t on December 18, 1998. Left to mourn her passing are her husband, Danny Lee Jackson; her father, Cecil Lloyd Carter and his wife, Julia A . Carter; two brothers, Cecilio Eloy Carter and Rogelio Alberto Carter and their wives, Marcy and Mary; Aunts Esther Agatha Hinds and Olga Hinds Shirley; Uncles Gouldbourne G. Carter and his wife, Leah, and the Venerable Charles E. Carter and his wife, Sonia; Donald Hinds; Uncles-in-Law, the Rt. Rev. Lemuel B. Shirley and James Berry, several nieces and nephews, cousins, as well as many friends in Panama and in the U.S.A . We pray that her rest may be in peace and that perpetual light may always shine upon her.