Ruth Jacquot Tempest, Short-story author, journalist and retired University of West Florida publications director Ruth Jacquot Tempest, 84, Pensacola, died Thursday (Feb. 23, 2006) at Azalea Trace Health Care Center of complications from breast cancer.
A Pensacola resident since 1972, she was born Oct. 9, 1921, in Woodbury, N.J., to DuPont Company explosives division manager Francis E. Jacquot and his wife, Josephine Chaffee Jacquot.
A graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va., she was a newspaper reporter in Wilmington, Del., during World War II and, after her 1945 marriage to U.S. Army Air Force Capt. Rone B. Tempest Jr., a newspaper editor in Silver City, N.M., where her husband worked as a mining engineer before resuming his military career. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972, Lt. Col. Tempest worked as physical plant director at UWF. He died in 1996 after the couple had celebrated 51 years of marriage.
Survivors include sons, Rone Tempest III, a Los Angeles Times newspaper correspondent, Davis, Calif., Mark Tempest, Capt. USNR (ret), an attorney in Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Jill Mayre(cq) Tempest, Ocean Springs, Miss., library branch manager; eight grandchildren; and nephew Grant Gilpin Jacquot, Mesa, Ariz.
An accomplished horsewoman, she liked to say she was initially attracted to her future husband, a trained cavalry officer, by his "beautiful seat" on horseback. She admired the grace and independence of cats, traveled the world with her pets and enjoyed reading and writing about them. As he health declined she greatly regretted being separated from her feline companion.
In an era when most women journalists were assigned to fashion or society reporting, she was an early general assignment and police reporter. She never lost her affection for fast-breaking news stories or the urge to follow a police siren.
After her marriage, she wrote short stories and non-fiction articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Charm and other leading American magazines. Her stories were translated and published in many countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway and
South Africa. One of her stories was cited in the "distinguished" list of Best American Short stories for 1951. Her work, often dealing with the loneliness and resolve of military wives, is maintained in the Ruth Tempest Collection in the archives section of the UWF library.
When her husband was recalled to active duty for the Korean War, Ruth Tempest avidly embraced the role of a peripatetic military spouse and mother, using her husband's assignments in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Guam and Turkey as settings in her fiction and journalism. While living in Ankara, Turkey from 1965-67, she edited a weekly magazine for U.S. diplomats and taught English to Turkish military officers.
In Pensacola, she was publications director and editor at UWF until her retirement in 1984. A 20-year resident of Scenic Hills, she was president of the Scenic Hills Garden Club; member of the board of directors, Scenic Hills Country Club, and officer, Scenic Hills Homeowners Association. Always active in the University of West Florida Women's Club, she served as recording secretary and also as chairman of both its Book Club and Antiquers Club. She was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church.
A Pensacola resident since 1972, she was born Oct. 9, 1921, in Woodbury, N.J., to DuPont Company explosives division manager Francis E. Jacquot and his wife, Josephine Chaffee Jacquot.
A graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va., she was a newspaper reporter in Wilmington, Del., during World War II and, after her 1945 marriage to U.S. Army Air Force Capt. Rone B. Tempest Jr., a newspaper editor in Silver City, N.M., where her husband worked as a mining engineer before resuming his military career. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972, Lt. Col. Tempest worked as physical plant director at UWF. He died in 1996 after the couple had celebrated 51 years of marriage.
Survivors include sons, Rone Tempest III, a Los Angeles Times newspaper correspondent, Davis, Calif., Mark Tempest, Capt. USNR (ret), an attorney in Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Jill Mayre(cq) Tempest, Ocean Springs, Miss., library branch manager; eight grandchildren; and nephew Grant Gilpin Jacquot, Mesa, Ariz.
An accomplished horsewoman, she liked to say she was initially attracted to her future husband, a trained cavalry officer, by his "beautiful seat" on horseback. She admired the grace and independence of cats, traveled the world with her pets and enjoyed reading and writing about them. As he health declined she greatly regretted being separated from her feline companion.
In an era when most women journalists were assigned to fashion or society reporting, she was an early general assignment and police reporter. She never lost her affection for fast-breaking news stories or the urge to follow a police siren.
After her marriage, she wrote short stories and non-fiction articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Charm and other leading American magazines. Her stories were translated and published in many countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway and
South Africa. One of her stories was cited in the "distinguished" list of Best American Short stories for 1951. Her work, often dealing with the loneliness and resolve of military wives, is maintained in the Ruth Tempest Collection in the archives section of the UWF library.
When her husband was recalled to active duty for the Korean War, Ruth Tempest avidly embraced the role of a peripatetic military spouse and mother, using her husband's assignments in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Guam and Turkey as settings in her fiction and journalism. While living in Ankara, Turkey from 1965-67, she edited a weekly magazine for U.S. diplomats and taught English to Turkish military officers.
In Pensacola, she was publications director and editor at UWF until her retirement in 1984. A 20-year resident of Scenic Hills, she was president of the Scenic Hills Garden Club; member of the board of directors, Scenic Hills Country Club, and officer, Scenic Hills Homeowners Association. Always active in the University of West Florida Women's Club, she served as recording secretary and also as chairman of both its Book Club and Antiquers Club. She was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church.
Ruth Jacquot Tempest, Short-story author, journalist and retired University of West Florida publications director Ruth Jacquot Tempest, 84, Pensacola, died Thursday (Feb. 23, 2006) at Azalea Trace Health Care Center of complications from breast cancer.
A Pensacola resident since 1972, she was born Oct. 9, 1921, in Woodbury, N.J., to DuPont Company explosives division manager Francis E. Jacquot and his wife, Josephine Chaffee Jacquot.
A graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va., she was a newspaper reporter in Wilmington, Del., during World War II and, after her 1945 marriage to U.S. Army Air Force Capt. Rone B. Tempest Jr., a newspaper editor in Silver City, N.M., where her husband worked as a mining engineer before resuming his military career. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972, Lt. Col. Tempest worked as physical plant director at UWF. He died in 1996 after the couple had celebrated 51 years of marriage.
Survivors include sons, Rone Tempest III, a Los Angeles Times newspaper correspondent, Davis, Calif., Mark Tempest, Capt. USNR (ret), an attorney in Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Jill Mayre(cq) Tempest, Ocean Springs, Miss., library branch manager; eight grandchildren; and nephew Grant Gilpin Jacquot, Mesa, Ariz.
An accomplished horsewoman, she liked to say she was initially attracted to her future husband, a trained cavalry officer, by his "beautiful seat" on horseback. She admired the grace and independence of cats, traveled the world with her pets and enjoyed reading and writing about them. As he health declined she greatly regretted being separated from her feline companion.
In an era when most women journalists were assigned to fashion or society reporting, she was an early general assignment and police reporter. She never lost her affection for fast-breaking news stories or the urge to follow a police siren.
After her marriage, she wrote short stories and non-fiction articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Charm and other leading American magazines. Her stories were translated and published in many countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway and
South Africa. One of her stories was cited in the "distinguished" list of Best American Short stories for 1951. Her work, often dealing with the loneliness and resolve of military wives, is maintained in the Ruth Tempest Collection in the archives section of the UWF library.
When her husband was recalled to active duty for the Korean War, Ruth Tempest avidly embraced the role of a peripatetic military spouse and mother, using her husband's assignments in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Guam and Turkey as settings in her fiction and journalism. While living in Ankara, Turkey from 1965-67, she edited a weekly magazine for U.S. diplomats and taught English to Turkish military officers.
In Pensacola, she was publications director and editor at UWF until her retirement in 1984. A 20-year resident of Scenic Hills, she was president of the Scenic Hills Garden Club; member of the board of directors, Scenic Hills Country Club, and officer, Scenic Hills Homeowners Association. Always active in the University of West Florida Women's Club, she served as recording secretary and also as chairman of both its Book Club and Antiquers Club. She was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church.
A Pensacola resident since 1972, she was born Oct. 9, 1921, in Woodbury, N.J., to DuPont Company explosives division manager Francis E. Jacquot and his wife, Josephine Chaffee Jacquot.
A graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va., she was a newspaper reporter in Wilmington, Del., during World War II and, after her 1945 marriage to U.S. Army Air Force Capt. Rone B. Tempest Jr., a newspaper editor in Silver City, N.M., where her husband worked as a mining engineer before resuming his military career. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972, Lt. Col. Tempest worked as physical plant director at UWF. He died in 1996 after the couple had celebrated 51 years of marriage.
Survivors include sons, Rone Tempest III, a Los Angeles Times newspaper correspondent, Davis, Calif., Mark Tempest, Capt. USNR (ret), an attorney in Raleigh, N.C.; daughter, Jill Mayre(cq) Tempest, Ocean Springs, Miss., library branch manager; eight grandchildren; and nephew Grant Gilpin Jacquot, Mesa, Ariz.
An accomplished horsewoman, she liked to say she was initially attracted to her future husband, a trained cavalry officer, by his "beautiful seat" on horseback. She admired the grace and independence of cats, traveled the world with her pets and enjoyed reading and writing about them. As he health declined she greatly regretted being separated from her feline companion.
In an era when most women journalists were assigned to fashion or society reporting, she was an early general assignment and police reporter. She never lost her affection for fast-breaking news stories or the urge to follow a police siren.
After her marriage, she wrote short stories and non-fiction articles for the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Charm and other leading American magazines. Her stories were translated and published in many countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway and
South Africa. One of her stories was cited in the "distinguished" list of Best American Short stories for 1951. Her work, often dealing with the loneliness and resolve of military wives, is maintained in the Ruth Tempest Collection in the archives section of the UWF library.
When her husband was recalled to active duty for the Korean War, Ruth Tempest avidly embraced the role of a peripatetic military spouse and mother, using her husband's assignments in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Guam and Turkey as settings in her fiction and journalism. While living in Ankara, Turkey from 1965-67, she edited a weekly magazine for U.S. diplomats and taught English to Turkish military officers.
In Pensacola, she was publications director and editor at UWF until her retirement in 1984. A 20-year resident of Scenic Hills, she was president of the Scenic Hills Garden Club; member of the board of directors, Scenic Hills Country Club, and officer, Scenic Hills Homeowners Association. Always active in the University of West Florida Women's Club, she served as recording secretary and also as chairman of both its Book Club and Antiquers Club. She was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church.
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