Jacqueline Lois Jones Holland died on August 15 at Ramapo Nursing Home in Suffern, N.Y. She lived in Tappan, N.Y., up to her time of death. She was predeceased by her husband, Albert Holland Jr. who died in 1993.

She was born in Boston on Oct. 24, 1925 to John W. and Lillian E. Evans Jones. She was a life-long Vineyard summer resident and lived in Oak Bluffs. Her family first came to the Vineyard in the early 1900s and has owned property on the Island since 1905.

A graduate of Memorial High School in Roxbury in 1943, she entered Salem Teachers College in Salem to begin her undergraduate studies. She later transferred to Boston University to receive her bachelor of science degree in 1947. She then entered Howard University to pursue her graduate degree and in 1948 received her master of arts degree in history. In November 1950, she married Albert Holland Jr. and moved to New York city, living first in Harlem and then moving to Orangeburg, N.Y.

She then began her teaching career in earnest at Orangeburg Elementary School where she taught the fifth grade from 1958 to 1968. In 1969, she received her elementary principal's certificate from Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. From 1970 to 1971, she was an adjunct instructor in education at Brooklyn College and from 1971 to 1973 she was a team teacher at William O. Shafer Elementary School in Tappan, N.Y.

In 1973, she received her doctorate in educational administration from the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University in Manhattan, upon which she became director of Rockland Community College, Orangetown Campus, in Orangeburg, N.Y. She was then appointed principal at Tappan Zee Elementary School in Piermont, N.Y., where she served from 1974 to 1981. In 1979, she was appointed to the board of trustees of Rockland Community College in Suffern and became president of the board from 1989 to 1992. She resigned from the board in 1997.

In 1984 she published Pompey Lamb: Black Revolutionary War Hero in South of the Mountains by the Historical Society of Rockland County. In 1987 she co-founded and became the first president of the African-American Historical Society of Rockland County. In 1989 she published The History of St. Charles AME Zion Church for the Historical Society of Rockland County and also became an adjunct professor of history at Dominican College in Blauvelt, N.Y., where she developed and taught a course on the African-American experience. In 1991, the definitive work on blacks on the Vineyard The African-American Presence on Martha's Vineyard, was published by the Dukes County Historical Society.

She was a member of the Nyack branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a member of the Association of Community College Trustees, a member of Historical Society of Rockland County, a member of the board of directors of the Association of Community College Trustees and a member of Partners of the Americas of Rockland County. She was the founder and first president of Pi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. In 2005, she was inducted into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Survivors include her children, Laurence W. Holland and Carol E. Holland-Kocher; their spouses; her two grandchildren, Touray V. Holland and Eva H. Kocher; her brother, Robert W. Jones; her in-laws Laurence H. Holland, Carrie Holland Rodriguez, Jackson Holland and Robert Holland and their families; as well as a host of cousins, nephews, nieces, other relatives, colleagues and friends.

Donations in her memory may be made to the CEJJES Institute, 1003 Route 45, Pomona, N.Y. 10970. The CEJJES Institute was founded by Drs. Susan and Edmund Gordon. The CEJJES Institute was founded to promote social justice, particularly as it pertains to health, education, and the environmental and material well-being of marginalized communities. It works primarily in collaboration with communities of color, particularly those of African descent and has established a library dedicated to the memory of Albert and Jacqueline Holland.

A memorial service for Jacqueline L. Holland on the Vineyard is being planned for the near future.