Holly Salisbury, a longtime Mentelle Park resident and retired director of UK’s Singletary Center for the Arts, died unexpectedly Saturday after a routine medical procedure. She was 74.
A celebration of her life is planned at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Singletary Center, 405 Rose St.
Holly, a visual artist and art teacher, was active in the neighborhood. She will be greatly missed by her friends and neighbors.
Holly moved to Mentelle Park in 1978, renting the house of a family friend. It was in front of that house her father had proposed to her mother, she said in a Herald-Leader article in 2000. In 1986, Holly bought the house next door and lived there the rest of her life.
“I laugh and say I was meant to be in Mentelle Park,” she told reporter Bettye Lee Mastin.
For more information about Holly’s life, read this Herald-Leader news story and her obituary. Memorial contributions are suggested to Lexington’s Central Music Academy or Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra.