Dorothy Jacobs

Obituary for Dorothy Carroll Jones Jacobs June 2, 1923-March 24, 2009 Dorothy Carroll Jacobs, 85, passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she had lived with her daughter Sue, son Neal, 3 dearly loved dogs and 2 cats since July 2007. Visitation will be on Monday, March 30, 2009, noon to 1:30 p.m., at Menke Funeral & Cremation Center, 12420 North 103rd Avenue, Sun City, Arizona. A graveside service will follow at 2 p.m. at Rest Haven Cemetery at 63rd and Northern Avenues in Glendale, Arizona. A Memorial service and celebration of Dorothy's life will occur at a later date in Stillwater, Oklahoma where Strode Funeral Home has assisted with the arrangements. Dorothy was born on June 2, 1923 in Rush Springs, OK to Henry Clay Jones and Ethyl Jane Addkison Jones. She was so proud of her little birth town, "the watermelon capital of the world" and attended the annual watermelon festival there for 5 of the last 7 years of her life. At the age of five, she moved to El Reno, OK with her family, where she attended both Catholic and public schools until her family moved to Arizona in 1937; she turned 14 the night they slept at the Continental Divide. She graduated from Tolleson Union High School in 1941with her lifelong friend, Sue Wilson Frasier and sister-in-law, Wanda Mitchell Jacobs. She married Ernest Neal Jacobs on June 25, 1943, lived in Hollywood for a short time while Ernest was in the army, and then lived on the dairy farm in Glendale where they raised two daughters Sue Carrol and Jane Ann, a son Neal and a foster son Danny Pevler. Her mother and father lived on the farm with her legal brother, Merle Henry Jones Hank during much of that time. Dorothy was active in the Glendale Women's Club, as a 4-H and Girl Scout leader and as a Northwest Hospital Auxiliary volunteer; she also was active in Elks and Optimist Club activities with Ernest. She had an open house for the neighborhood children and her children's friends and a constant pot of coffee brewing for local farmers. She spent many hours with her grandchildren teaching them the arts of cloud watching, storytelling and how to behave. Following the death of her beloved husband in 1981, she moved to Avondale, Peoria and Glendale, where she spent many hours with her grandchildren, caring for her mother, providing respite services for others and working as a dispatcher for a trucking company. She also took trips throughout the US to visit her daughter Sue, her nephew Ryan, her son and his family when he lived in Texas, and to Jacobs's family reunions, leaving behind friends made in Texas, Oregon, Mississippi, Boston, North Dakota, and Tennessee. She always had her cats and a dog and for many years her son living with her. She was a member of the Glendale Church of Christ. Dorothy was so happy during her time in Oklahoma since 2001 and later living in Stillwater. She visited places of childhood memories, found the graves of a brother and her sisters, volunteered for offsite dog adoptions for the Stillwater Humane Society, and regained her pride in being part Choctaw and Cherokee. She loved the Oklahoma State Cowboys OSU; neighborhood gatherings; countryside drives; Oklahoma clouds; and the flowers, squirrels, rabbits, geese, cardinals and occasional red foxes in the yard. She made new memories and was overjoyed that she was able to spend time with her "3 Ms", great granddaughters, and her niece Kandi last December in Arizona. She rode the OSU Transit bus to attend the Life Adult Day Center in Stillwater five days a week and worked out at Total Rehab; her final year was so full of life and appreciative of the other participants, staff, bus drivers, and her other new and longtime friends and family. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; 2 brothers Bobby Jean and Merle, known as "Buster' and 2 sisters Patsy and infant female. She is survived by 2 daughters, Sue Carrol Jacobs Stillwater OK and Jayne Ann Jacobs /Bryson Buckeye AZ, one son, Neal Clay Jacobs Stillwater OK, and foster son, Danny Pevler Maricopa AZ, legal brother Merle Henry Jones and his wife Elizabeth Glendale AZ; cousin Bella Frances Miller and her family Elfrida AZ; 6 beloved grandchildren, Kandi Connelly and her husband Scott Surprise AZ, Stacey Lynn Box and her husband Harry Los Angeles CA, Denielle DeeDee Bryson Buckeye AZ, Kayla Bryson Buckeye AZ, Ryan Neal Jacobs and Jaime Lynn Jacobs; 3 special foster grandchildren Angie, Maria, and Shelly, 5 dearly loved great grandchildren, McKenna Connelly, Madeleine Connelly, Melina Connelly, Henry Box, and Eliza Jane Box; her long time friends, especially Sue Frazier Englewood CO, Ada Winn Waddell AZ, and Barb and her husband Patrick Garrow Dandridge TN; her brother-law, Robert Jacobs and his wife, Wanda Litchfield AZ; her sister-in law Florence Jacobs Sun Lakes AZ, many nephews, nieces, their families and friends, and her dearly love little dog, Precious, her 2 grand-dogs, Shanti and Katie, and her 2 grand-cats, Mindi and YaYa. Pallbearers will be her beloved nephews Milton Phoenix AZ, Ken Flagstaff AZ and Chuck Jacobs Mesa AZ; Grand Nephew Chas Jacobs, her brother Merle "Hank" Jones Glendale AZ, and her son-in law Scott Connelly Surprise AZ. Honorary pallbearers will be lifetime friend Kenneth O Butler Buckeye AZ and Robert Jacobs Sr. brother-law Litchfield Park AZ. Memorial contributions may be sent in Dorothy C Jacobs' name to: The Life Adult Day Center, 411 West Mathews, Stillwater, OK 74075. Condolences for the family may be emailed to www.menkefuneralhome.com in Sun City or www.strodefh, com in Stillwater.