Jacqueline Salisbury Rice

 Jacqueline Rice (Salisbury), age 84, slipped peacefully from this earth and into the Lord’s merciful embrace while at home on October 11th, 2023, thanks in part to the efforts of Regency Hospice. She was born on August 28th, 1939 in Hunter, Kentucky to Jake Salisbury and Susie (Martin). When Susie unexpectedly died in July 1944 at the age of 45, the youngest of her six children, Jackie (then 4-1/2) along with two of her sisters Gerlie Bea (Conn) and Norma (Lede), aged 6 and 8 respectively, were lovingly taken in and raised by their maternal grandparents Silas Rasser and Ida Martin (Ackers). At age 16, Jackie entered Caney Junior College (now Alice Lloyd College) in Kentucky at the behest of her grandparents who passed within four weeks of one another in the Fall of 1955. On September 12th,1958, Jackie married Howard B. Rice (originally from Ivel, Kentucky) in a small private ceremony in West Palm, Florida and the young pair enthusiastically embarked upon what would then become Howard’s 28-year long USAF military career. As they traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe, Jackie was able to see firsthand the places around the globe she had only read about growing up in school. As a result, Jackie developed a deep love for history, art and geology. The couple finally settled in Albany, Georgia in 1985 immediately following Howard’s military retirement at Moody AFB in Valdosta.