06/15/2025
🦸🏻♂️🦸🏻♂️Today is Father’s Day and I’m going to boast about the 2 most important men in my life.
My husband of almost 36 years, LFAS Co-Founder, Bill Soucy is an amazing human who has been vegan for the animals since 2013. The #1 photo of Bill with our first rescued dairy cow, Olivia, is particularly poignant because Bill feels so much empathy for dairy cows. Mother cows and their babies suffering every day in the dairy industry are the reason Bill went vegan.🌱 🐄💚
The rest of the photos give a small inkling of how much Bill loves our rescued animals. All 9 species.
1 Olivia🐄
2 Emma and Lucas🐐🐐
3 Levi🐴
4 Pearl🦃
5 Camilla🐖
6 Kismet🐑
7 Felipe🐔
8 Sammy 🐈
9 Justin (Bill’s biological son and my wonderful stepson) with Joey🐶
10 Selfie w/me Bill’s bday 6/12/25
11 One of the few photos I have of my Dad.
The other hero in my life was my Dad, Harry Jackson. He was the son of Swedish immigrants who changed our last name from Jakobsson to Jackson because they wanted to be more “American.” My Dad was raised in Chico, California, where my grandparents had a used car lot and a small almond farm. He graduated from Stanford University with an Engineering Degree and then worked his whole career at Northrop Corporation as an Aircraft Engineer so his 3 kids could live in a nice neighborhood and he could help us go to college. (We all did and we all graduated) I credit my Dad with instilling a strong work ethic in me and for trying to protect me from my very difficult alcoholic mother. He is the reason I survived my childhood. My Dad died many years ago, too young, and I miss him every day. He would have loved our animals and our sanctuary and Bill.
Happy Father’s Day to all the biological Fathers (and stepfathers and role models) who are “always there” for your children. You are all heroes!🦸🏻♂️🦸🏻♂️
Written by LFAS Co-Founder Tracey Jackson Soucy
