CYNTHIA GALE CARROLL WAS BORN ON APRIL 24TH, 1960 ALONG WITH HER TWIN BROTHER CARL, TO BEVERLY ANN CARROLL AND THURMAN TOLBERT AT DENVER GENERAL IN DENVER, COLORADO. BEING THE ELDEST CHILD OF HER MOTHERS FOUR LIVE CHILDREN WAS A ROLE THAT BECAME PART OF HER IDENTITY AND STRUCTURED WHO SHE WAS AND HOW SHE HANDLED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT LIFE. GROWING UP, SHE WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ALL THE WAY TO HER ADOLESCENT YEARS. EVEN THOUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES INTERRUPTED HER CATHOLIC EDUCATION DURING HIGH, SCHOOL, CYNTHIA DID NOT LET ANYTHING STOP HER AND SHE WAS PROUDLY ABLE TO COMPLETE HER GED. SHE ALSO ATTENDED ALVIN AILEY'S SCHOOL OF DANCE HERE IN DENVER SHE FURTHERED HER FORMAL EDUCATION BY ATTENDING BOTH THEN METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER AND "THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN DENVER TO STUDY COMMUNICATIONS. RISING ABOVE CHALLENGES IS HOW SHE IS REMEMBERED, BEING DESCRIBED AS DETERMINED, ECCENTRIC AND EXUBERANTLY VOCAL ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE AND HOW THEY NEED TO GO. SHE WAS SO VOCAL THAT SHE EVEN FELL IN LOVE WITH BEING A SINGER AND HAD THE RASP OF A 1950'S JAZZ SINGER SHE BELIEVED THAT MUSIC WAS A WAY TO CONNECT WITH THE WORLD AND THAT IT CAN HEAL THE HEART AND SOUL. YET THERE WAS ONE THING THAT SHE WAS MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT THAN BEING A SINGER - BECOMING A MOTHER. FRESH IN ADULTHOOD, SHE MET AND MARRIED ALVIN ESNAULT JR. AND HAD ALVIN ESNAULT III AND JARREAU ESNAULT. FOLLOWING HER DIVORCE FROM ALVIN JR, CYNTHIA WENT ON AND FOUND LOVE WITH BURNETT BARTLETT AND HAD HER LAST CHILD, ROBERT BARTLETT. HER LOVE FOR HER CHILDREN WAS UNQUESTIONABLE AND SHE INSTILLED IN THEM A LOVE OF DANCE AND SINGING TOGETHER, FINDING TOTAL JOY WHEN HER SONS WOULD SERENADE HER WITH "HAPPY TOGETHER" SHE WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR EDUCATION, NOT ONLY SHOWING UP AT HER SONS SCHOOL AND ADVOCATING FOR SENIORS FOR-COLLEGE BUT BEING THE BIGGEST CHEERLEADER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION OF HER: GRANDSON WITH AUTISM. LATER IN LIFE, HER ROLE AS A GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT GRANDMOTER BROUGHT HER UNPARALLELED HAPPINESS, AND HER GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER BECAME HER SECOND PRIDE AND JOY. SHE CHERISHED EVERY MOMENT SPENT WITH THEM AND CONSISTENTLY SHOWERED THEM WITH HER WISDOM AND LOVE. SHE LOVED BALLOONS AND BIRTHDAYS, MAKING SURE TO ATTEND AS MANY BIRTHDAYS AS POSSIBLE DESPITE FAILING HEALTH AND ASSURING EVERY CHILD. PRESENT HAD A BALLOON AND WAS INCLUDED IN THE FESTIVITIES. THOUGH CYNTHIA FACED MANY TRIALS, SHE NEVER LOST HER FAITH IN GOD NOR HER LOVE FOR OTHERS. AS A FREE SPIRIT WITH A PASSION FOR LIVING LIFE, HER TIME WAS SPENT ADVOCATING FOR OTHERS AND PRAISING THE LORD-EVEN WHILE FACING HER OWN PERSONAL HEALTH ADVERSITIES. SHE HAD AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE AND LIFTING THEM UP IN THEIR DARKEST TIMES, SHE LIVED WITH GRACE, HUMOR, AND A DEEP SENSE OF GRATITUDE ESPECIALLY FOR EVERY PART OF LIFE. SHE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HER WARMTH, HER VIBRANT SPIRIT, AND HER UNWAVERING DEVOTION TO HER FAMILY AND TO GOD CYNTHIA IS SURVIVED BY HER SONS ALVIN, JARREAU, AND ROBERT; HER DAUGHTERS FROM LOVE: AREISA, CARMEN, LISA AND KIM; HER GRANDCHILDREN: ROSE, ELIJAH, BRANDON, JOSIAH, AMAYA, LEAIYAH, LIAHINNA, AALIYAH, JARREAU JR, RAIDEN, RIA, KIMBELLA, AND KIMORA (KIMAYA); HER GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER STORM; HER SIBLINGS THOMAS IR (MARCIA), ELIZABETH, ROBERT CHARLES (ROBIN), AARON AND DANIEL, ALONG WITH A LOVING LIST OF FRIENDS, IN-LAWS, COUSINS, NIECES AND NEPHEWS. SHE IS PRECEDED IN. DEATH BY CARL CARROLL, ROBERT CARROLL, BEVERLY ANN CAVINESS, LOVIE MAE CARROLL, AND THURMAN TOLBERT.