- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Constance Danise Jackson "Connie", ? - 2006, 12 Noon, Jackson Memorial Baptist Church, Alfonso Dawson Mortuary
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2006-08-03
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Constance Danise Jackson. Birth date: (not recorded). Death date: July 27, 2006. Funeral date: August 3, 2006. Church: Jackson Memorial Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.). The Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_jacksonconstancedanise20060803
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_jacksonconstancedanise20060803
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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CONSTANCE DANISE JACKSON 11CONNIE" ? -2006
12 NOON JACKSON MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
ALFONSO DAWSON MORTUARY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution I ajc.com
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Connie Jackson, cancer educator, choir leader
By HOLLY CRENSHAW
hcrenshaw @ajc.com
After her breast cancer diagnosis in 1999, Connie Jackson went to battle. She assembled an arsenal of knowledge and recruited other foot soldiers to help fight the disease.
"Not kr10wing will kill you:' Mrs. Jackson said in a 2004 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. "There's one woman in my church who's 83 years old and never had a mammogram in her life. Can you believe that? A lot of older women feel they just don't need mammograms. And that's just not true!'
She got involved withJackson Memorial Baptist Church's health ministry and trained as a "witness role model" for the Greater Atlanta Witness Proj. ect to spread awareness and boost access to cancer screening among African-American women.
She spoke out at community centers and spoke out at churches, where, she joked, people "can't really get up and walk out on you!'
"Our motto is that, in church, we witness to save souls. In the Witness project, we witness to save lives!'
down, to fight through it and be
encouraging to others!'
Learning her friend had
died, Ms. Johnson said, was
"like someone stuck a pin in a
balloon and let all the air out!'
Mrs. Jackson, an Atlanta
native, graduated from Brown
High School in 1971 and took
secretarial classes before start-
ing her career as an insurance
claims representative.
She commuted to her Al-
pharetta office every workday,
then volunteered up to six times
a week at her church.
"Anything they asked Con-
nie to do, she did - for the
adults but mostly with the
youth:' said her friend Robyn
Yancey of Union City. She
taught Sunday school and va-
cation Bible school classes and
served as youth choir adviser,
guiding them with her trusting
manner and strong alto voice.
She loved them so much,
said her daughter, Shenetha
.
JESSICA MCGOWAN I Special Jackson Releford of Atlanta,
Connie Jackson set up a banner for the Witness Project booth during a health fair in 2004. She
that she and her sister would
took seriously persuading African-American women to get cancer screenings.
feign jealousy over all the at-
tention Mrs. Jackson showered
Constance Danise Jackson, 51, died of breast cancer Thursday at her Atlanta residence. The funeral is noon Thursday at Jackson Memorial Baptist
Church. Alfonso Dawson Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
"She was my 'shero' because she was a fighter:' said
her friend Katrina. Johnson of Atlanta. "She would find a
on her choir members. "Those children would talk
positive in any situation and to her before they would talk
encourage others who were dealing with cancer to not feel
to their own parents and tell her things they'd never tell
their parents:' Mrs. Yancey said. "She'd help them resolve whatever issue they were going through, maybe some kind of peer pressure or worry about going to college, and she'd keep everything confidential and never tell a soul!'
After 34 years in the same red and white outfits, Mrs.
Jackson decided the youth choir deserved new robes and spearheaded a fund -raising
drive. Countless Krispy Kreme doughnut sales later, their spiffy purple and white robes arrived just as she was being readmitted to the hospital in April.
"That day, on her way to intensive care, she kept saying not to worry about the cancer:' her daughter said. "She just kept giving me and my sister all these strict instructions about the robe dedication and how the programs shouldbe and how the service should be handled!'
Survivors include her husband, Don R. Jackson of Atlanta; another daughter, Christie Jackson of Atlanta; her mother, Julia Brooks of Atlanta; a brother, Cooledge Bostic Jr. of Atlanta; a sister, Charlotte Childs of Atlanta; and three grandchildren.
Cancer warrior
Connie Jackson didn't let cancer
come C9
between her and the church duties she loved.