[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 151 (Wednesday, October 21, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2282-E2283]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO FRANCES LOUISE JACKSON BALTIMORE

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                           HON. CORRINE BROWN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 20, 1998

  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
remarkable woman who has recently departed this life. Frances Louise 
Jackson Baltimore (1918-1998) was a wonderful mother, wife, and friend 
to many. She was born to the late Cornelius Jackson and Fannie Burrells 
Jackson on June 18, 1918 in Linden, Virginia. She married at an early 
age to Bishop Eugene E. Baltimore, and gave birth to six children--
Anna, Florence, Barbara Jean, Eugene, Wilbert, and Darlene. She was 
preceded in death by Barbara Jean, Eugene, and Darlene.
  Frances attended the Cherry Hill Elementary School in Linden, 
Virginia. She married Bishop Eugene Baltimore in Front Royal, Virginia, 
and they relocated to Johnsontown, Jefferson County, West Virginia. She 
and Eugene raised five children, and ran a clean, tidy household of 
modest means. She had numerous skills, many of which she passed on to 
her children, including sewing, cooking, canning and preserving, and 
decorating. She worked very hard to raise a proper family during the 
depression era.
  After her children were grown, Frances moved to New York City where 
she received her GED and earned a Certificate of Completion in 
Geriatric Nursing. She lived and worked in New York for more than 20 
years and was active in the lives of friends and family there. She 
later took up residence in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1982, and became a 
member of her son Wilbert's church, the Holy Temple Cathedral Church of 
God.
  Frances was the matriarch of a very talented family. Her offspring 
have gone on to become successful professionals, many of whom earned 
advanced degrees and served

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honorably in the military. On October 11, 1998, Frances succumbed to 
Alzheimer's Disease. She will be remembered as a stylish, dedicated 
woman, who always knew how to make a little go a long, long way.

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