Jacqueline G Potter-Voll

Jacqueline Potter-Voll, 85, of Milan, IL, passed away Friday, November 3, 2023, at Allure of the Quad Cities, Moline.

Per her wishes, cremation rites will be accorded. There will be no services. Inurnment will be at Riverside Cemetery in Moline, IL.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, or Anderson Valley Animal Rescue in Boonville, CA 95415. Family and friends are invited to share memories and express online condolences at www.wendtfuneralhome.com.

Jaqueline Gail Potter was born in Moline on December 12, 1937, to Charles and Frances (Miller) Potter. On May 2, 1971, in Beverly Hills, CA, she married Bernard Frederick Voll, who preceded her in death on May 19, 1987.

Jaqueline graduated from Barrington High School and attended Northwestern University. She was a member of the First Congregational Church of Oakland, CA, and Philo Methodist Church of Oakland, CA. She was a writer, watercolorist, sculptor, florist, and a California restaurateur. She was passionate about flowers, art, holding and reading 'real' books, music, and being a trained French Cook and Chocolatier. She loved her family and friends, long walks, and worshipping nature and God.

Survivors include stepdaughters Karen (David) Bohan-Lindquist of Laguna Beach, CA, and Cristina (Scott) Fitz-Randolph of Los Angeles, CA; brothers Charles Scott Potter of Yorkville, CA, Marshall Vincent (Nora) Potter of Santa Rosa, CA, and Stewart Day (Angel) Potter of Rohnert Park, CA; local cousins: Michelle Prescott and James Miller of Moline; and many more deeply loved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends. In addition to her husband, she was preceded by her parents, a sister, Jill Frances Potter, and a brother, William Brian Potter.

Family and friends are invited to share memories and express condolences on her Memory Page at wendtfuneralhome.com.

"We grow out of the dark garden,

at birth each as a flower in our own soul's

resplendent bloom of color.

Our days pour forth as an easy rain

of love and tears and laughter.

Death should be effortless

as the falling leaf in autumn,

not suspect, never sought,

not planned, simply got."

(by Jaqueline Potter-Voll)