Dr. Carl August Jacobs, 1912 - 2000

JACOBS, ROELFS, HUENDLING

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/16/2024 at 10:39:32

Sioux City Journal
13 April 2000

Dr. Carl August Jacobs, 88, of Sioux City died Tuesday, April 11, 2000, at his residence following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Donald Cameron officiating. Burial will be in Wheatland Cemetery, Breda, Iowa. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 6 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Dr. Jacobs was born Feb. 4, 1912, near Carnarvon, Iowa, the son of Fredric Cuno and d Clasena (Roelfs) Jacobs. He graduated from Lake View (Iowa) High School in 1927. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in 1931 and graduated from the College of Medicine in 1936. He completed his internship in 1937 in Salt Lake City. From 1937 to 1941, he studied at the University of Iowa Hospitals as a resident in internal medicine and general surgery.

He married Lucille Huendling on April 28, 1941, in Nashua, Iowa. She died June 2, 1990, in Sioux City.

In 1942, he entered in the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant colonel during World War II. He was stationed with 14th Army, 34th Division in the China-Burma-India Theater for 30 months.

Following his discharge, he returned to the university and completed his surgical residency, then taught at the University of Iowa College of Medicine's Department of Surgery from 1945 to 1947. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1949.

He established his private surgical practice in Sioux City in 1947. He was a staff member at St. Luke's and Marian hospitals and served as staff president and chief of surgery at the former St. Joseph's Hospital.

He belonged to Woodbury County Medical Society, Iowa Medical Society and American Medical Society. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He was a member of Iowa Academy of Surgery's founders group, serving as the organization's president in 1959. He retired from his medical practice in 1984.

He attended First Presbyterian Church, where he served: as an elder and trustee. He enjoyed the outdoors and was an avid sportsman and hunter.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Peter and Mary of Yorktown, Va.; six daughters, Beth and her husband, Curtis Livengood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ruth and her husband, Robert Walton of Oakaloosa, Iowa, Mary Varner of Iowa City, Iowa, Kristin and her husband, Jeffry Peterson of Spirit Lake, Iowa, Susan Aden of Des Moines and Rachel and her husband, Donald Holmquist of Brookings, S.D.; two sisters, Frieda Sherbondy of Akron, Ohio, and Hannah Cunningham of Metairie, La.; and 13 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Henry, Julius and Paul; and four sisters, Hilkea Jacobs, Bina Strauser, Janna Meyer and Alma Hubiak.

Memorials may be directed to First Presbyterian Church, Hospice of Siouxland and Sioux City Gospel Mission.