Telephone company executive.
Winfred O. "Fred" Jacobs died at his home on October 19, 2008. Born on December 2, 1922, in Joliette, IL, to J.A.W and Helen Brown Jacobs, Fred came to Colorado in 1933 with his father, mother, and two sisters. After living in Alamosa, he graduated from Fountain High, where he was a star basketball player. In the fall of 1940, he entered the University of Denver on an academic scholarship and excelled at his studies and was a member of the Pioneer Basketball teams.
His college years were interrupted by World War II and service in the Army. Prior to going overseas, he attended the Army Specialized Training Program in Foreign Language at Carlton College in Northfield, WI, where he was trained to be the "mayor" of a small town in occupied France. With the success of the Free French government, however, he was assigned to the 337th Ordinance Battalion as a rifleman. Promoted to Technical Sergeant in the 7th Army, he participated in Operation Dragon, the invasion of Southern France, and the campaigns in the Vosges Mountains and Bastogne.
On leave in Denver in the spring of 1946, he met the love of his life and his wife of 62 years, Katherine Marie Kaiser. He was discharged and finished his last quarter at DU by June of 1946.
Fred and Kay were married on September 15, 1946 at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Denver. The National Basketball Association had just been formed and the former DU coach, Ken Loeffler, asked Fred to come to the training camp of the St. Louis Bombers as a trainer and told him that "If you're good enough, you'll make the team." Fred made the team and played the second NBA game ever played, at which the St. Louis Bombers lost to the Pittsburg Ironmen on 11/2/46. Fred played as a defensive specialist until mid-season when he became a team scout.
Fred had higher aspirations, and in 1946, he took and passed the U.S Foreign Service written exam. This was around the time that he was was making a living by driving a sightseeing bus up the switchbacks of Lookout Mountain. Informed that he would have to go to graduate school, and having to make ends meet, he took a job with Mountain States Telephone as a Yellow Pages salesman in El Paso, Texas. His intelligence, dedication and drive at the phone company resulted in a 37-year career that included service throughout the Rocky Mountains, a stint with AT&T in New York, and culminated in his being named Chief Operating Officer in 1977.
Kay and Fred lived in Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Butte, and Phoenix and handled every tough job he was given, including negotiation of a workers' strike in the 1950s and the coordination of the break up the company in the early 1980s. Upon leaving the Mt. Bell in 1984, he served on the boards of Loretta Heights College, the First National Bank and the Colorado Coalition for Health.
He and Kay travelled all over the world, spending time on every continent . He and Kay were 40-year members of Rolling Hills Country Club in Golden.
Fred is survived by his wife, Kay; sons, Richard Jacobs, of Dallas, and Robert Jacobs, of Santa Fe, grandchildren, Joseph, Ian, Sarah, Victoria, Clayton, Cole; and sister, Mrs. Margery Greenhalge, of Sun City, AZ.
A Memorial Service will be held at Olinger's Crown Hill Pavilon of Reflection at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2008, with a reception at Rolling Hills Country Club to follow.
Winfred O. "Fred" Jacobs died at his home on October 19, 2008. Born on December 2, 1922, in Joliette, IL, to J.A.W and Helen Brown Jacobs, Fred came to Colorado in 1933 with his father, mother, and two sisters. After living in Alamosa, he graduated from Fountain High, where he was a star basketball player. In the fall of 1940, he entered the University of Denver on an academic scholarship and excelled at his studies and was a member of the Pioneer Basketball teams.
His college years were interrupted by World War II and service in the Army. Prior to going overseas, he attended the Army Specialized Training Program in Foreign Language at Carlton College in Northfield, WI, where he was trained to be the "mayor" of a small town in occupied France. With the success of the Free French government, however, he was assigned to the 337th Ordinance Battalion as a rifleman. Promoted to Technical Sergeant in the 7th Army, he participated in Operation Dragon, the invasion of Southern France, and the campaigns in the Vosges Mountains and Bastogne.
On leave in Denver in the spring of 1946, he met the love of his life and his wife of 62 years, Katherine Marie Kaiser. He was discharged and finished his last quarter at DU by June of 1946.
Fred and Kay were married on September 15, 1946 at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Denver. The National Basketball Association had just been formed and the former DU coach, Ken Loeffler, asked Fred to come to the training camp of the St. Louis Bombers as a trainer and told him that "If you're good enough, you'll make the team." Fred made the team and played the second NBA game ever played, at which the St. Louis Bombers lost to the Pittsburg Ironmen on 11/2/46. Fred played as a defensive specialist until mid-season when he became a team scout.
Fred had higher aspirations, and in 1946, he took and passed the U.S Foreign Service written exam. This was around the time that he was was making a living by driving a sightseeing bus up the switchbacks of Lookout Mountain. Informed that he would have to go to graduate school, and having to make ends meet, he took a job with Mountain States Telephone as a Yellow Pages salesman in El Paso, Texas. His intelligence, dedication and drive at the phone company resulted in a 37-year career that included service throughout the Rocky Mountains, a stint with AT&T in New York, and culminated in his being named Chief Operating Officer in 1977.
Kay and Fred lived in Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Butte, and Phoenix and handled every tough job he was given, including negotiation of a workers' strike in the 1950s and the coordination of the break up the company in the early 1980s. Upon leaving the Mt. Bell in 1984, he served on the boards of Loretta Heights College, the First National Bank and the Colorado Coalition for Health.
He and Kay travelled all over the world, spending time on every continent . He and Kay were 40-year members of Rolling Hills Country Club in Golden.
Fred is survived by his wife, Kay; sons, Richard Jacobs, of Dallas, and Robert Jacobs, of Santa Fe, grandchildren, Joseph, Ian, Sarah, Victoria, Clayton, Cole; and sister, Mrs. Margery Greenhalge, of Sun City, AZ.
A Memorial Service will be held at Olinger's Crown Hill Pavilon of Reflection at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2008, with a reception at Rolling Hills Country Club to follow.
Telephone company executive.
Winfred O. "Fred" Jacobs died at his home on October 19, 2008. Born on December 2, 1922, in Joliette, IL, to J.A.W and Helen Brown Jacobs, Fred came to Colorado in 1933 with his father, mother, and two sisters. After living in Alamosa, he graduated from Fountain High, where he was a star basketball player. In the fall of 1940, he entered the University of Denver on an academic scholarship and excelled at his studies and was a member of the Pioneer Basketball teams.
His college years were interrupted by World War II and service in the Army. Prior to going overseas, he attended the Army Specialized Training Program in Foreign Language at Carlton College in Northfield, WI, where he was trained to be the "mayor" of a small town in occupied France. With the success of the Free French government, however, he was assigned to the 337th Ordinance Battalion as a rifleman. Promoted to Technical Sergeant in the 7th Army, he participated in Operation Dragon, the invasion of Southern France, and the campaigns in the Vosges Mountains and Bastogne.
On leave in Denver in the spring of 1946, he met the love of his life and his wife of 62 years, Katherine Marie Kaiser. He was discharged and finished his last quarter at DU by June of 1946.
Fred and Kay were married on September 15, 1946 at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Denver. The National Basketball Association had just been formed and the former DU coach, Ken Loeffler, asked Fred to come to the training camp of the St. Louis Bombers as a trainer and told him that "If you're good enough, you'll make the team." Fred made the team and played the second NBA game ever played, at which the St. Louis Bombers lost to the Pittsburg Ironmen on 11/2/46. Fred played as a defensive specialist until mid-season when he became a team scout.
Fred had higher aspirations, and in 1946, he took and passed the U.S Foreign Service written exam. This was around the time that he was was making a living by driving a sightseeing bus up the switchbacks of Lookout Mountain. Informed that he would have to go to graduate school, and having to make ends meet, he took a job with Mountain States Telephone as a Yellow Pages salesman in El Paso, Texas. His intelligence, dedication and drive at the phone company resulted in a 37-year career that included service throughout the Rocky Mountains, a stint with AT&T in New York, and culminated in his being named Chief Operating Officer in 1977.
Kay and Fred lived in Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Butte, and Phoenix and handled every tough job he was given, including negotiation of a workers' strike in the 1950s and the coordination of the break up the company in the early 1980s. Upon leaving the Mt. Bell in 1984, he served on the boards of Loretta Heights College, the First National Bank and the Colorado Coalition for Health.
He and Kay travelled all over the world, spending time on every continent . He and Kay were 40-year members of Rolling Hills Country Club in Golden.
Fred is survived by his wife, Kay; sons, Richard Jacobs, of Dallas, and Robert Jacobs, of Santa Fe, grandchildren, Joseph, Ian, Sarah, Victoria, Clayton, Cole; and sister, Mrs. Margery Greenhalge, of Sun City, AZ.
A Memorial Service will be held at Olinger's Crown Hill Pavilon of Reflection at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2008, with a reception at Rolling Hills Country Club to follow.
Winfred O. "Fred" Jacobs died at his home on October 19, 2008. Born on December 2, 1922, in Joliette, IL, to J.A.W and Helen Brown Jacobs, Fred came to Colorado in 1933 with his father, mother, and two sisters. After living in Alamosa, he graduated from Fountain High, where he was a star basketball player. In the fall of 1940, he entered the University of Denver on an academic scholarship and excelled at his studies and was a member of the Pioneer Basketball teams.
His college years were interrupted by World War II and service in the Army. Prior to going overseas, he attended the Army Specialized Training Program in Foreign Language at Carlton College in Northfield, WI, where he was trained to be the "mayor" of a small town in occupied France. With the success of the Free French government, however, he was assigned to the 337th Ordinance Battalion as a rifleman. Promoted to Technical Sergeant in the 7th Army, he participated in Operation Dragon, the invasion of Southern France, and the campaigns in the Vosges Mountains and Bastogne.
On leave in Denver in the spring of 1946, he met the love of his life and his wife of 62 years, Katherine Marie Kaiser. He was discharged and finished his last quarter at DU by June of 1946.
Fred and Kay were married on September 15, 1946 at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Denver. The National Basketball Association had just been formed and the former DU coach, Ken Loeffler, asked Fred to come to the training camp of the St. Louis Bombers as a trainer and told him that "If you're good enough, you'll make the team." Fred made the team and played the second NBA game ever played, at which the St. Louis Bombers lost to the Pittsburg Ironmen on 11/2/46. Fred played as a defensive specialist until mid-season when he became a team scout.
Fred had higher aspirations, and in 1946, he took and passed the U.S Foreign Service written exam. This was around the time that he was was making a living by driving a sightseeing bus up the switchbacks of Lookout Mountain. Informed that he would have to go to graduate school, and having to make ends meet, he took a job with Mountain States Telephone as a Yellow Pages salesman in El Paso, Texas. His intelligence, dedication and drive at the phone company resulted in a 37-year career that included service throughout the Rocky Mountains, a stint with AT&T in New York, and culminated in his being named Chief Operating Officer in 1977.
Kay and Fred lived in Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Butte, and Phoenix and handled every tough job he was given, including negotiation of a workers' strike in the 1950s and the coordination of the break up the company in the early 1980s. Upon leaving the Mt. Bell in 1984, he served on the boards of Loretta Heights College, the First National Bank and the Colorado Coalition for Health.
He and Kay travelled all over the world, spending time on every continent . He and Kay were 40-year members of Rolling Hills Country Club in Golden.
Fred is survived by his wife, Kay; sons, Richard Jacobs, of Dallas, and Robert Jacobs, of Santa Fe, grandchildren, Joseph, Ian, Sarah, Victoria, Clayton, Cole; and sister, Mrs. Margery Greenhalge, of Sun City, AZ.
A Memorial Service will be held at Olinger's Crown Hill Pavilon of Reflection at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2008, with a reception at Rolling Hills Country Club to follow.
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