Jacques Roderick Rule, known to his family and friends as Jack, passed away in Rochester, New York on Sept. 3, 2006 at the age of 88. Born on July 10, 1918 in Waco, Texas to Alice and Roderick Rule, Jack grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts with his sister Doris. He graduated from Commerce High School in 1936 where he was a baseball star and sports editor of the school year book. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served his country for three years during World War II rising to the rank of sergeant. After the war he returned to civilian life and continued his education at Northeastern University where he graduated in 1949. In 1948 he married Eleanor Madeline (Betsy) Giguere of Lowell, Massachusetts. They raised four boys, Robert, John, Richard and Paul. Jack worked for 40 years in the appliance business before retiring as an executive vice president of the Food Fair Corporation. The Rule family lived in Holden and Natick Massachusetts before moving to Manhasset, New York. When Jack retired he and Betsy moved to Sarasota, Florida to a very active social life. Betsy passed away in 1995. Jack continued to play golf and tennis and visit family. At the age of 87 he had a stroke on the tennis court. He never recovered and died peacefully. He leaves behind his four "boys," 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a great man, a good father who grew up poor with a single parent and who worked hard all his life to give his family the things he never had, and he did just that. He will live on in their memories.