Rare Disease is Fatal to Boy, 16
Stuart Jacobs Succumbs in Omaha Saturday to Rare Blood Malady
Ill several months, most of which time he spent in a hospital, Stuart Jacobs, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jacobs of Blair, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha. He had undergone 11 blood transfusions in a futile effort to overcome the effects of leukemia, a rare blood disease.
The body was returned to Blair, and funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Campbell Mortuary, the Rev. C.E. Hamilton of First Baptist church in charge. Burial followed in Blair cemetery.
Stuart LeRoy Jacobs was born December 4, 1924, in East Omaha, and at the age of two months came to Blair with his parents, residing here the rest of his life.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Russell and Virgil, at home, and Kenneth, with the army at Fort Riley, Kansas; and five sisters: Mrs. Henry Lamp, Mrs. Harold Davis, Norma Lila Rose, and Shirley, all of Blair.
~~Printed in the August 21, 1941 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska. Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~
Stuart Jacobs Succumbs in Omaha Saturday to Rare Blood Malady
Ill several months, most of which time he spent in a hospital, Stuart Jacobs, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jacobs of Blair, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha. He had undergone 11 blood transfusions in a futile effort to overcome the effects of leukemia, a rare blood disease.
The body was returned to Blair, and funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Campbell Mortuary, the Rev. C.E. Hamilton of First Baptist church in charge. Burial followed in Blair cemetery.
Stuart LeRoy Jacobs was born December 4, 1924, in East Omaha, and at the age of two months came to Blair with his parents, residing here the rest of his life.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Russell and Virgil, at home, and Kenneth, with the army at Fort Riley, Kansas; and five sisters: Mrs. Henry Lamp, Mrs. Harold Davis, Norma Lila Rose, and Shirley, all of Blair.
~~Printed in the August 21, 1941 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska. Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~
Rare Disease is Fatal to Boy, 16
Stuart Jacobs Succumbs in Omaha Saturday to Rare Blood Malady
Ill several months, most of which time he spent in a hospital, Stuart Jacobs, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jacobs of Blair, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha. He had undergone 11 blood transfusions in a futile effort to overcome the effects of leukemia, a rare blood disease.
The body was returned to Blair, and funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Campbell Mortuary, the Rev. C.E. Hamilton of First Baptist church in charge. Burial followed in Blair cemetery.
Stuart LeRoy Jacobs was born December 4, 1924, in East Omaha, and at the age of two months came to Blair with his parents, residing here the rest of his life.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Russell and Virgil, at home, and Kenneth, with the army at Fort Riley, Kansas; and five sisters: Mrs. Henry Lamp, Mrs. Harold Davis, Norma Lila Rose, and Shirley, all of Blair.
~~Printed in the August 21, 1941 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska. Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~
Stuart Jacobs Succumbs in Omaha Saturday to Rare Blood Malady
Ill several months, most of which time he spent in a hospital, Stuart Jacobs, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jacobs of Blair, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha. He had undergone 11 blood transfusions in a futile effort to overcome the effects of leukemia, a rare blood disease.
The body was returned to Blair, and funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Campbell Mortuary, the Rev. C.E. Hamilton of First Baptist church in charge. Burial followed in Blair cemetery.
Stuart LeRoy Jacobs was born December 4, 1924, in East Omaha, and at the age of two months came to Blair with his parents, residing here the rest of his life.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Russell and Virgil, at home, and Kenneth, with the army at Fort Riley, Kansas; and five sisters: Mrs. Henry Lamp, Mrs. Harold Davis, Norma Lila Rose, and Shirley, all of Blair.
~~Printed in the August 21, 1941 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska. Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~
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