Ina Christina Steele-Dixon

Ina Christina Steele-Dixon was Lela's mother. She wrote the poem below and inserted it in a letter to Grandma Lela shortly after Grandpa Ralph Carver and many of his family members died in a plane crash.

God Of Love

Oh God of love forgive, forgive

Teach us how to truly live

Regardless of our race or creed

Help us in our hour of need

Some day man may realize

All the earth and sea and sky

Belongs to God who made us all

The rich, the poor, the great and small

In our father's holy sight

No man is yellow, black or white

And peace on earth can not abound

Until we meet on common ground

And every man becomes a brother

And worships God and loves each other