Charmeika (Char) Denise Jackson
12/03/77 – 11/14/2015
My beautiful, kind, loving first born daughter who was the best mother to her three children and the best daughter a mother could ever ask, think or imagine having! She was a great friend, a great big sister and soon to be bride to her fiancé Nick! She was fun and funny and had the most beautiful smile that would brighten the darkest of days! The beauty you see on the outside is only there because of the radiant beauty flowing from within her beautiful spirit!
Char was diagnosed with Lupus in 2006 and although she had occasional flareups, many trips to the doctor, she never lost her zeal for life or that beautiful contagious smile! She would have days that she wasn’t feeling well, yet she would press on and go to work anyway. Throughout her illness, she never waivered from her faith or her responsibilities as a loving mother. Being a mother was her greatest accomplishments is what she would tell anyone who asked. She absolutely loved being a mother to her 3 children, the oldest, a daughter Caitlin and twin sons Bernard and Brandon.
She was extremely proud of finding a great place of worship for her family in Atlanta after leaving her hometown of Savannah. Relevant Life Church under the leadership of Pastors Eddie & Cledra Gross served as a sanctuary of love, peace and growth for her. She adored her new-found church family!
The week of November 9th, she was not feeling well and on Friday morning, November 13, 2015, I received a call from her fiancé Nick that she was being rushed by ambulance to the hospital as he was having difficulty in breathing as well as pain when doing so. I immediately left work from Savannah and drove to Atlanta to the hospital. Upon my arrival, she was in a great deal of pain and breathing was continuing to be difficult.
The doctors were running tests to find out what the problem was. I spent the night with her at the hospital. Saturday morning, there was no change, so the doctor decided to put her on a ventilator to help her breathe so she wouldn’t have to struggle. That afternoon, the doctor decided to perform a procedure to better help her, but she went into cardiac arrest a couple of times in which eventually she was pronounced dead on Saturday evening and the final cause of death was Sepsis.
Just in a blink of an eye, she was gone.
Georgette D. Jackson, Mother
Savannah, Georgia