IN MEMORIAM
Jacqueline Taliaferro Amols,
1st Opera President, Dies At 91
COOPERSTOWN – Word has been received that Jacqueline Taliaferro Amols, the first president of Glimmerglass Opera, who lived in Cooperstown for 40 years before moving to New Orleans in 2010, passed away quietly on Aug. 26, 2017. She was 91 years old.
Jacqueline grew up as a member of a military family, residing on many different posts both in the U.S. and abroad. Her father, Army Col. Edward H. Taliaferro, Jr., born and raised in Bunkie, La., served his country first in World War I, then again in World War II.
