Jones: Congresswoman Jones was an invaluable mentor for me and I feel enormously privileged to have known her. We met when she and her husband selected me to be the pediatrician to their newborn son, Mervyn, a role I served for nineteen years. During that period and subsequently I learned more than I had from most what power there is when an individual integrates and uses intellect, passion, commitment, courage, respect and love in the service of others. She did so splendidly for her husband and son, her larger family, her constituents and her many friends.
When she embraced you, you knew that the hold was secure, that there would be no abandonment, no matter what others thought. She was not satisfied to be successful alone. Success for her was bringing others along. A few months back I emailed her to say, "I know that the road you've chosen in your support of Senator Clinton is at times lonely. I admire you for your courage and loyalty and I am keeping you in prayer daily." She wrote back, "I so appreciated hearing from you and please continue to remember me."
I will remember Stephanie Tubbs Jones always. The remembrance will be with profound gratitude. When I feel tired of struggling for what is right and just, I will be energized and lifted by the committed and principled road she always travelled. Sadly, Doris Evans Doris A. Evans, M.D.