Wallace Gillian Jacobson

Published 12:00 pm Tuesday, March 6, 2012

FOREST — Wallace Gillian Jacobson died Sunday, March 4, 2012, in Kosciusko after an extended illness. He was 97.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Ott and Lee Funeral Home in Forest. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Yokena Cemetery, south of Vicksburg. Visitation will be Wednesday, March 7, 2012, from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Jacobson was a native of Warren County and had lived in Forest since 1978. He returned from service in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he served in the Army Air Corps as a staff sergeant and intelligence specialist in the 631st Squadron. He later worked for the Biedenharn Candy Company and for the Illinois Central Railroad. He also retired as the District 4 court clerk for Warren County under Judge Ben Guider. He is a member of the Forest United Methodist Church and a former member of The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, of Vicksburg. He was a life member of the VFW and the American Legion. Mr. Jacobson also had been a member of the Lions Club of Forest and the Elks Club of Vicksburg. Mr. Jacobson was a Master Mason of the Highland Lodge and was an Eagle Scout.

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He was preceded in death by his parents, Harry Jacobson and Jean Gillian Jacobson; two brothers, Robert T. and Richard C. Jacobson; two sisters, Delina Jacobson Tenjes and Elizabeth Jacobson Trampe; a nephew, Harry Jacobson; and three wives, Flora Bell Jacobson, Eunice King Jacobson and Shirley Blackwell Jacobson.

Survivors include his wife, Celia D. Jacobson; two stepdaughters, Sherri Byrd (Ricky), Terri Smith (Ben); a stepson, Leslie Blackwell (Serita); nieces and nephews, Miriam Emerson (Lee), Ronald Jacobson (Felicia), Sandra Cooper (Gerald), Charles Trampe (Peggy), Mark Trampe (Claudia), Lynn Cummisford (Jeff), Susan Sorka (Kurt), Kelly Treybig (Brad), Kevin Jacobson (Siv) and Joy Hollingsworth; five stepgrandchildren; and seven stepgreat-grandchildren.