it is actually the son of ruth jackson. wenzel was born june 15th, 1956 and was raised in san francisco visitacion valley community. he's a graduate of woodrow wilson high school and participated in team sports such as tennis and softball. he worked at merrill lynch 15 years where he developed his management skills and later left corporate life to pursue his calling in pastoral ministry. he leaves behind to cherish his memory his best friend and his loving wife tamara hall man jackson, his parents of washington, d.c., and ruth jackson, also affectionately known as polly. she's a leader right here in our own visitacion valley community. he left behind four brothers, brian, drew, james, and lorenzo and one brother-in-law, raphael who resides in hollywood, california. so, please join me in lifting up our dear friend and sister ruth jackson as she mourns the loss of one of her children. on another note, another sad note, i also want to lift up another mother of the bayview community that has lost her son. many of you know ms. e

ruth also known as piley jackson whos very active in sunnydale against gun violence. bishop jackson is also the spiritual advisor for the bayview opera house community choir as i mentioned before, but it was along with reverend cordell hawkins of [speaker not understood] baptist church who happened to be the director of the cbap program of the d.a.'s office, who founded the homicide memorial quilt. ~ we need gun violence -- gun legislation, but we have to see about the aftermath and those who are affected by gun violence. his idea he got from cleve jones at the [speaker not understood] project. i was blessed to work for the maims project for a short period of time. we're going to be revising the homicide quilt and we'll be having quilt panel dedication ceremonies coming up soon. and ask the prayers for the families of those affected by the gun violence. and we have panels on the homicide quilt, san francisco bay area homicide quilt also victim of domestic violence. and we should start adding pedestrians who were killed also because that's a homicide. homicide is when