Arlene Johnson Jacobi Carlton

JOHNSON, JACOBI, CARLTON, RIES, TALLIAN, HOLM, UCHIYAMA

Posted By: Ruth Maring- Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/6/2006 at 18:41:11

ThPublished: December 01, 2006 02:20 pm

Arlene (nee Johnson) Jacobi Carlton

Arlene (nee Johnson) Jacobi Carlton passed away peacefully on November 24, 1006 in Bend, Oregon where she and her husband had resided for several years.

Born to the cabinetmaker John Christian Johnson and his wife Catherine Dorothea Ries on October 1, 1916, Arlene resided in Clinton, Iowa until after the 1959 death of her husband Dr. Albert F. Jacobi. In 1960 she moved to Monterey Peninsula, California where she married retired businessman and rancher E. Richard “Dick” Carlton. They lived in Carmel, San Francisco, LaJolla, and Honolulu. Upon Dick’s death in 1988, Arlene moved to Jackson, Wyoming. There she met Walter Tallian, a retired banker from Chicago and they married.

Arlene spent her life appreciating the beauty in the world and added to it with her special style. She designed a dozen of her homes, using contemporary ideas and materials to complement the varied unique building sites. One house was featured in House Beautiful.

Talented in many ways, Arlene began knitting at her grandmother Ries’ knee and knitted family sweaters for some 75 years. She was a talented seamstress, first stitching all of her uniforms for nurse’s training at Jane Lamb Hospital. She engaged in many fiber arts. A highlight was a needlepoint sculptured calico cat which now is displayed in the Monterey, California public library. She began painting in the 1980’s and with her usual perfectionism and superb eye for design and detail became an accomplished painter. She took joy in the work of other artists and was a collector of Emile Norman and of Native American art.

Arlene is survived by her devoted husband Walter Tallian, three children Carol Jacobi Holm of Dayton, Ohio; Albert F. Jacobi III of Margate, Florida; and Catherine Jacobi Uchiyama of Salinas, California; along with six grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. To those she has imparted her great loves of nature and of books.

Arrangements were private.

Arlene Jacobi Carlton

Bend, Oregon

October 1, 1916 - November 24, 2006
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