Jacobs, Adrian G. 1920-2010

JACOBS, VANES, REEKERS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 10/21/2010 at 14:46:57

Adrian G. Jacobs November 29, 1920 - October 6, 2010
Mr. Adrian Jacobs, age 89, of Orange City, passed away on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at the Orange City Area Health System Long Term Care Facility. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, October 9, at 11:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. David Ter Beest will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a prayer service on Saturday, at 10:00am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Adrian Gerald was born on November 29, 1920, in Alton, the son of Conrad and Tillie (Van Es) Jacobs. He was raised on the family farm northeast of Orange City. He attended the Holland No. 5 country school and graduated from the Newkirk High School in 1936. He attended the Northwestern Junior College in Orange City from 1936 to 1937 and the Nettleton Business College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from 1937 to 1940. During World War II, "Ade" served with the United States Army from 1942 to 1946, as a part of the last horse cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas. He also attended Chinese language school at Yale University and served overseas in India along the Chinese border. On March 20, 1946, he married Muriel Reekers in Orange City. They farmed the Jacobs farm until 1975, when they moved into Orange City. In 2007, they became residents of the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community in Orange City, and in January of 2010, he transferred to the Long Term Care Facility. In addition to being a farmer, Mr. Jacobs was a farm loan officer at the Northwestern State Bank in Orange City from 1965 to 1979. For ten years, the couple spent their winters in Mesa, Arizona. He was a member of the First Reformed Church, where he had been a deacon and church treasurer. He also served on the boards of directors of the Sioux County Extension Service and the Alton Farmers Elevator and was a member of the Pressman-Kosters American Legion Post in Orange City. Always active and having many interests, Ade enjoyed fast pitch softball, bowling, airplanes, and standard bred horses. In his retirement years, he stayed young playing tennis, gardening, woodworking, snow skiing, and golfing. He had a quick wit and good sense of humor, and he enjoyed spending time with all of his family. Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Muriel; his daughter and her husband, Barb and Paul Lubbers, of Orange City; his son and his wife, Ron and Brenda Jacobs, of Rancho Cucamonga, California; seven grandchildren, Jill, and her husband, Dustin Thomas, of Vadnais Heights, Minnesota; Lisa, and her husband, Jess Meekma, of Omaha, Nebraska; Grant Lubbers, of Armour, South Dakota; David Lubbers, and his wife, Natalie, of Gilbert, Iowa; Jesse Jacobs, of Carpenteria, California; Christina, and her husband, Matt Van Voorst, of Riverside, California; and Jenny, and her husband, Chris Southard, of El Paso, Texas; and five great-grandchildren, Sophie and Hannah Meekma, Cora and Ranae Van Voorst, and Charlie Southard. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Melanie Jacobs. Source: Oolman Funeral Home obit.