Sylvia Joyace Jackson

Columbia, South Carolina - Sylvia Joyace Jackson (nee Hunter), 80, of Columbia, South Carolina, died peacefully on February 10, surrounded by her children and husband. 

Daughter of Clyde and Reba Hunter (nee Spicer), and sister to Glenn, Dwane and Larry, she grew up on a farm near Rickman Tenn.. After college, she pursued post-graduate studies at Duke University to become a registered dietitian, where she married Don J. Jackson, M.D.  Concurrently, she taught at the  North Carolina School for Design.

Full of creativity, vivacity and curiosity, with a zest for her family, she postponed her career to raise children Keely and Ethan. Eventually, she established a private consultancy in Clarksville Tenn. 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 - but most of all her grandchildren Erin Hunter and Ryan Jobe Kennemore. 

She requested a celebration of life by friends and family, burial in the family cemetery near Dover, Tenn., and finally, donations to Doctors Without Borders instead of flowers. 

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