Jacqueline (Jackie) Louise Ford

Jacqueline (Jackie) Louise Ford, 88, passed into heaven on June 8, 2025 in Boise, ID. She was born February 3, 1937 in Bozeman, Montana to Floyd and Edythe (Martel) Ford. The family including her older sister, Carole, moved to Coos Bay, Oregon before she started school, where she lived until graduating from Marshfield High School in 1955. She was the only girl that played on the boy’s tennis team and in 2016 was inducted into their hall of fame!

Jackie attended Oregon State University and earned a BS in Education (PE). After graduation she moved to California to teach high school Health and PE in Rio Vista and Oceanside and later taught at TVCC in Ontario, Oregon. She left teaching to run her own businesses, Ford-McNeil Christian Art and Book store in Caldwell, Idaho and also to work her 20 acre seed farm. She retired in Boise and enjoyed many years of traveling all over the world with her best friend, Lydia. They loved to fish and camp and would travel to where her sister lived in Eastern Oregon for many camping trips with her nieces, great nieces, and great nephew. When her sister retired in Arizona there were many fun trips there also with the extended family.

Jackie loved animals especially her pups, Koko and Jazzy. She worked tirelessly planting beautiful flowers in their yard. Jackie was a strong Christian woman and was very involved in many churches in Boise.

Jackie is survived by her two nieces, Vicki (Walt) Donovan, Chandler, AZ and Jimi Vickers, Eugene, OR, two great nieces, Trinity Donovan (Chandler) and Tara Donovan (LA), great nephew, Travis Donovan (Chandler), two great great nieces and many good friends.

She always kept us laughing right up until the end. Jackie never met a stranger and was so friendly and generous to everyone. She will be greatly missed but we can rejoice in the fact that she went to heaven on her mother’s birthday and they are all together once again! At her request there will not be a service.