Jacobson, Angeline Emma Hattie 1910-2011
JACOBSON, TOKARSKI, WINTER, BALKMAN
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 9/11/2012 at 14:59:06
Angeline Jacobson, age 101 of Decorah, IA, died Thursday, December 1, 2011 at Aase Haugen Home in Decorah.
Memorial Services will be at 1:30 PM Thursday, December 8, 2011 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Decorah, with Rev. Joan A. Mau officiating. A Private Family Inurnment will be held at a later date at St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Stone Bank, Wisconsin.
Angeline Emma Hattie Jacobson was born on November 5, 1910 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Nels and Hedvig (Tokarski) Jacobson. She was baptized on November 27, 1910 by Pastor Gustave Stearns at Ascension Lutheran Church in Milwaukee and confirmed in her faith at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stone Bank, Wisconsin where she also attended elementary school. Following the death of her mother when she was 9 years old, Angeline moved from Milwaukee to Stone Bank, Wisconsin, where she lived with her aunt and uncles.
Angeline continued her education at the Scandinavian Lutheran Academy (later Central Wisconsin College) in the community of the same name through four years of high school and the first two years of college. From there she transferred to St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931 with a major in History. During the Great Depression she taught high school Social Studies in Finlayson and Cottonwood, Minnesota as well as Marengo, Illinois. She then became the high school librarian in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and it was there she discovered a great love for this vocation. Having made that decision, she enrolled in the University of Michigan where she received both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s of Arts degree in Library Science. It was while she was in Beaver Dam that she applied for and was appointed to the Luther College faculty in the fall of 1951. She served as the Head of Reader’s Services and then as Reference Librarian in both Koren and Preus Libraries until her retirement as a professor emerita in May, 1976. During a sabbatical year she did research of Native American Literature throughout the southwest of the United States. Her research included numerous research trips during which she collected Native American art and artifacts. In 1977, she compiled “Contemporary Native American Literature: A Selected and Partially Annotated Bibliography” which was published by Scarecrow Press.
Angeline was a charter member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a member of Decorah’s Travel Club, the Ridge Road Group as an early homeowner in that residential neighborhood, and a “life” member of the Decorah Area Branch of the American Association of University Women.
In 1969 Ms. Jacobson decided to donate her body to the Deeded Body Program at the Department of Anatomy at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and made the appropriate arrangements at that time.
Angeline is survived by her cousins: Naomi (Ole) Winter of Decorah and Margaret Balkman of Dousman, Wisconsin; her special godchild, Tricia (Mark) Green of Dousman, Wisconsin; and other relatives in the Oconomowoc and Stone Bank, Wisconsin communities.
Angeline Jacobson is remembered at Luther College and by her relatives for her independent spirit, hard work, discipline and dedication to her position on the college staff. May God bless her memory to us all. Memorials may be given to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stone Bank, Wisconsin, Aase Haugen Homes, or Luther College.
Source: Fjelstul Funeral Home database
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