Jacobe, Josephine E. (Mrs. Frank) 1863-1933

JACOBE, HAEFNER

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

Source: Hawarden Independent (6-8-1933)

Birth: February 5, 1863
Death: June 7, 1933

Mrs. Frank Jacobe, a resident of Hawarden for fifty-one years and among the first to move here after the town was founded, passed away at her home at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning after a lingering illness of several months. Her condition had grown steadily weaker during the past few weeks and the end was not unexpected.

Funeral services will be held at the Associated Church at 2:30 Friday afternoon with Reverend R.J. Cornell, the pastor, in charge. Interment will be made in Grace Hill Cemetery.

Josephine Eva Haefner, daughter of John and Eva Haefner, was born at Mendota, Illinois, February 5, 1863, so that she was past 70 years of age. Her mother died when she was but 5 years old but she and her sister continued to remain in the home until she was 18 when she went to Odebolt, Iowa. On December 1, 1881, she was united in marriage with Frank Jacobe of Odebolt, the marriage ceremony being performed in Sac City. For nearly a year after their marriage they made their home at Peterson, Iowa, where Mr. Jacobe operated a meat market.

With the extension of the North Western railway to Hawarden in the summer of 1882, Mr. Jacobe accepted a position with the railway company as a carpenter and they came to Hawarden to make their home and have resided here continuously ever since. Their first home here was a one-room affair which Mr. Jacobe built near the North Western tracks. Later they lived in a box car for a time and Mrs. Jacobe boarded railroad men to help out with the family finances. After a few years Mr. Jacobe left the employ of the railway company and engaged in the carpenter trade in partnership with John Haines and more than forty years ago constructed the house which has since been the family home. Here the children of the family grew to young manhood and womanhood, tenderly watched over and cared for by a mother whose every thought was for the welfare and comfort of the members of her family.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Jacobe is survived by five daughters, Mrs. D.M. Morgan, Mrs. Chas. Wilkison, Mrs. Clarence Dunham, Mrs. Dave Mullenburg, all of Hawarden, and Mrs. Fred Fogel of Sioux City, and two sons, Ben Jacobe of Hawarden and Elwood Jacobe of Sioux City. One daughter, Mrs. Mollie Mason, preceded her mother in death on December 29, 1931. Mrs. Jacobe also leaves one sister, Mrs. John Haines of Hawarden, and four half-brothers and three half-sisters in Illinois, besides fifteen grandchildren.

Few mothers every enjoy more loyal devotion from their children than that which Mrs. Jacobe was blessed or a greater degree of genuine affection from neighbors and friends. Her passing is widely mourned and universal sympathy goes out to the members of her family.