Birth: 1937 Death: 2024 Jacquie Callihan OBITUARY Jacquie Callihan May 12, 1937 August 15, 2024 Jacquie Callihan passed away peacefully on August 15, 2024. Beyond being the most caring wife to her husband of 65 years, Dale, she was a loving and generous mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, the deeply compassionate family matriarch. Jacquie was a kindergarten teacher in the same classroom for 31 years at Ambrosini Elementary School in Fortuna, CA.
She later became principal and then was a frequent substitute teacher into her early eighties. Children loved and revered her. She believed in the dignity and preciousness of each child.
Her focus on equality and bringing out the inherent talents of the children and grandchildren that she taught and raised has left an extraordinary legacy. In her own poetic words, “Attention, I do not always have enough to go around / But love is not measured by order or turn / Each child is the most precious of all God’s gifts / And loved wholeheartedly, equally they will know.” JacquieJacquelyn Jean McLeodwas born on May 12, 1937 at her Aunt Mina’s maternity home in Fortuna, the daughter of Bruce McLeod and Gertrude (Meisser) McLeod.
She loved growing up with her sister Judy on McLeod’s Dairy Farm and delighted in saying that she drove the tractor at age five back and forth across the fields, with her dad throwing feed from the trailer and jumping back on the tractor to make each turn. After her mother died at a young age, Bruce ma.