Sylvia Joyace Jackson

The daughter of Haskell Clyde Hunter and Caddie Reba Hunter (nee Spicer), and sister to Glenn, Dwane and Larry Hunter, she grew up on a small farm near Rickman TN. After high school, she received a B.S. at TN Polytechnic Institute, and pursued post-graduate studies at Duke University to become a registered dietitian working at Duke Hospital, where she met and married Don J. Jackson, M.D. Concurrently, she taught at the School for Design and a YMCA camp in CT.

Full of creativity, vivacity and curiosity, with a zest for her peripatetic family, she postponed her career to raise children Keely and Ethan. Eventually, she established a private consultancy in Clarksville TN and later Columbia, in the meantime reporting for The Islander in Key Biscayne.

Active in her community, she was a docent at the Museum of Art and a volunteer reader in the public schools. Always with a zeal for plants, she became a Master Gardener, and enjoyed playing tennis, hiking, cooking, sewing, entertaining, and especially membership in the informal book club, The Columbia Literary and Jocular Society - but most of all her grandchildren Erin Hunter and Ryan Jobe Kennemore.

She requested a celebration of life (Feb. 13, 6 PM, Dunbar Funeral Home on Devine St.) by friends and family, burial in the family cemetery near Dover TN, and finally donations to Doctors Without Borders instead of flowers.

Her vibrant personality and dedication to friends and family will always be remembered.