Jacqueline Bennett Holmes

Jacque was born December 12, 1932 in Baltimore, MD to Josephine St. Clair Bennett and Henry Garland Bennett, Jr., while her father was attending Johns Hopkins University. She graduated from Classen High School, Oklahoma City and majored in art history at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, where she made life-long friends and stayed active in reunions. She worked in New York for Compton Advertising and met her first husband Fred Lovejoy Mullikin, Jr., a Jacksonville native. After living in Atlanta and Tampa, FL for a short time, they settled in Jacksonville. In 1976, Jacque married her husband of 40 years, Rogers “Tiger” Baldwin Holmes. She was co-founder of The Group Gallery (first contemporary art gallery in Jacksonville) with architect Taylor “Cinder” Hardwick and was founder & owner of Art Sources, Inc., a national fine art advisory and consulting firm, one of the first focused on corporate clients in the country. Her firm developed corporate art collections for Bank of America, IBM, AT&T, Tupperware International and Merck & Company, to name a few. She also worked with many private collectors. Jacque was passionate about the arts in her community. She was a co-founder of the Arts Assembly of Jacksonville (now known as the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville) with the late Ann Baker and Helen Lane, was Chairman of The Ringling Museum of Art (Florida’s state art museum), served on the boards of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, Jacksonville Art Museum, the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, served on several public arts planning programs locally and across the country, including the curation of the Philadelphia Convention Center. She also curated and juried art exhibitions, and lectured nationally. In addition to being part of The Florida Theatre renovation, she led the Jacksonville Art in Public Places Program – these art commissions can be seen at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville Equestrian Center and Jacksonville Public Library Main. She ended her career as one of Bank of America’s regional corporate art curators. In 2016, Jacque was recognized by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville as one of 40 icons of arts and culture.

A Renaissance Woman before her time, Jacque was on the cutting edge of corporate art collecting and had an incredible impact on the arts in the Jacksonville community. She had a passion for travel and was always on the lookout for up and coming artists as well as the latest fashion trends. Her leisure time was spent reading, enjoying her contemporary home at Doctors Lake and spending time with family at Ponte Vedra Beach.

She is survived by her husband Rogers “Tiger” Baldwin Holmes, her daughter Elizabeth Mullikin Drake and husband Thomas Drake (Westford, VT), her daughter Helen Connell Mullikin Pinckney, husband Francis Morris Pinckney III, and grandchildren, Eleanor St. Clair Pinckney, Amanda Walker Pinckney, Thomas Francis Pinckney (Charlotte, NC), her stepchildren, Leighton Tesche, Rogers B. Holmes, Jr., Kenny Holmes, Lockwood Holmes, and Mary Roebuck and their families (Jacksonville, FL),her sister Nancy Bennett Noxon (Oklahoma City, OK) and nieces Julie Dawn Holland, Kimberly Witter, Robyn Marrs and their families.

Our family is thankful for the extraordinary care given by the Windsor at Ortega staff, especially the CNAs and Dr. Mike Stephens who treated Jacque with love, grace and kindness.

A service to celebrate Jacque’s life will be held Friday, February 3, 2017 at Grace Episcopal Church, 245 Kingsley Ave, Orange Park, FL 32073 at 2:00 pm, preceded by a private graveside service. A reception will follow at Timuquana Country Club. Funeral services are being provided by Hardage-Giddens Edgewood, 729 Edgewood Ave. S, Jacksonville FL 32205 and Evergreen Cemetery, 4535 Main St N, Jacksonville, FL 32206. In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Jacqueline Holmes may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, Western Carolina Chapter, 4600 Park Road Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209 or online at www.alz.org/northcarolina or the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, 300 Water Street, Suite 201, Jacksonville, FL 32202.