Note: His surname is misspelled on the Nationwide Gravesite Locator site as "Jacobsen." However, his parent's surnames, public records, his death notice and obituaries reflect "Jacobson."
James "Jim" Jacobson
Eugene, Oregon
1946 - 2018
Jim Jacobson passed away on December 18, 2018. Jim was born on May 6, 1946 in Portland Oregon to Leonard D. and Alice C. Wiesendanger Jacobson. He has one older brother A.D. and younger twin brothers, Jerry and John.
Jim attended schools in Eugene, and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1964. Later that year he joined the Naval Reserve and then enrolled in the University of Oregon as a pre-med student. After two years as a student, he volunteered for active duty as a corpsman (medic) in the Navy. He was assigned to the hospital corpsman school in San Diego where he learned that most Navy corpsman were actually assigned to work with the Marines.
Upon graduation from corpsman school, Jim was assigned to a hospital ship, USS Repose, off South Vietnam, but when he arrived in Vietnam (where the war was heating up) he was one of twelve new corpsmen who had a temporary assignment to a Marine Division operating near the border with North Vietnam. After a time of service with the Marines, he was re-assigned to the hospital ship. He quickly received promotions, in part because of his pre-med education, and was made NCO supervisor of the corpsmen receiving battle casualties transported via helicopter from the battlefield. During this time, they received some 140 to 150 severely burned sailors from the catastrophic fire in the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier accident.
After his one year term of service in Vietnam, Jim returned to Oregon in October of 1967 and was one of the first students of a new-to-Oregon Emergency Medical Technical (EMT) class, and then attended the paramedic training class at Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School in Portland. He worked as an emergency medical technician-paramedic in the Portland area for ten years, then was invited to serve as the primary medical technician for a large construction project in Utah for a year. After this, he returned to Oregon and worked as an EMT-Paramedic in the Roseburg area for another ten years.
Upon retirement in the late 1990s, Jim devoted himself to building his own MS-DOS personal computers and work in technical support for several computer software companies.
Jim was preceded in death by his father Leonard Jacobson.
There will be a memorial service for Jim at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland Oregon in January.
Arrangements entrusted to Musgrove Family Mortuary.
James "Jim" Jacobson
Eugene, Oregon
1946 - 2018
Jim Jacobson passed away on December 18, 2018. Jim was born on May 6, 1946 in Portland Oregon to Leonard D. and Alice C. Wiesendanger Jacobson. He has one older brother A.D. and younger twin brothers, Jerry and John.
Jim attended schools in Eugene, and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1964. Later that year he joined the Naval Reserve and then enrolled in the University of Oregon as a pre-med student. After two years as a student, he volunteered for active duty as a corpsman (medic) in the Navy. He was assigned to the hospital corpsman school in San Diego where he learned that most Navy corpsman were actually assigned to work with the Marines.
Upon graduation from corpsman school, Jim was assigned to a hospital ship, USS Repose, off South Vietnam, but when he arrived in Vietnam (where the war was heating up) he was one of twelve new corpsmen who had a temporary assignment to a Marine Division operating near the border with North Vietnam. After a time of service with the Marines, he was re-assigned to the hospital ship. He quickly received promotions, in part because of his pre-med education, and was made NCO supervisor of the corpsmen receiving battle casualties transported via helicopter from the battlefield. During this time, they received some 140 to 150 severely burned sailors from the catastrophic fire in the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier accident.
After his one year term of service in Vietnam, Jim returned to Oregon in October of 1967 and was one of the first students of a new-to-Oregon Emergency Medical Technical (EMT) class, and then attended the paramedic training class at Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School in Portland. He worked as an emergency medical technician-paramedic in the Portland area for ten years, then was invited to serve as the primary medical technician for a large construction project in Utah for a year. After this, he returned to Oregon and worked as an EMT-Paramedic in the Roseburg area for another ten years.
Upon retirement in the late 1990s, Jim devoted himself to building his own MS-DOS personal computers and work in technical support for several computer software companies.
Jim was preceded in death by his father Leonard Jacobson.
There will be a memorial service for Jim at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland Oregon in January.
Arrangements entrusted to Musgrove Family Mortuary.
Note: His surname is misspelled on the Nationwide Gravesite Locator site as "Jacobsen." However, his parent's surnames, public records, his death notice and obituaries reflect "Jacobson."
James "Jim" Jacobson
Eugene, Oregon
1946 - 2018
Jim Jacobson passed away on December 18, 2018. Jim was born on May 6, 1946 in Portland Oregon to Leonard D. and Alice C. Wiesendanger Jacobson. He has one older brother A.D. and younger twin brothers, Jerry and John.
Jim attended schools in Eugene, and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1964. Later that year he joined the Naval Reserve and then enrolled in the University of Oregon as a pre-med student. After two years as a student, he volunteered for active duty as a corpsman (medic) in the Navy. He was assigned to the hospital corpsman school in San Diego where he learned that most Navy corpsman were actually assigned to work with the Marines.
Upon graduation from corpsman school, Jim was assigned to a hospital ship, USS Repose, off South Vietnam, but when he arrived in Vietnam (where the war was heating up) he was one of twelve new corpsmen who had a temporary assignment to a Marine Division operating near the border with North Vietnam. After a time of service with the Marines, he was re-assigned to the hospital ship. He quickly received promotions, in part because of his pre-med education, and was made NCO supervisor of the corpsmen receiving battle casualties transported via helicopter from the battlefield. During this time, they received some 140 to 150 severely burned sailors from the catastrophic fire in the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier accident.
After his one year term of service in Vietnam, Jim returned to Oregon in October of 1967 and was one of the first students of a new-to-Oregon Emergency Medical Technical (EMT) class, and then attended the paramedic training class at Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School in Portland. He worked as an emergency medical technician-paramedic in the Portland area for ten years, then was invited to serve as the primary medical technician for a large construction project in Utah for a year. After this, he returned to Oregon and worked as an EMT-Paramedic in the Roseburg area for another ten years.
Upon retirement in the late 1990s, Jim devoted himself to building his own MS-DOS personal computers and work in technical support for several computer software companies.
Jim was preceded in death by his father Leonard Jacobson.
There will be a memorial service for Jim at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland Oregon in January.
Arrangements entrusted to Musgrove Family Mortuary.
James "Jim" Jacobson
Eugene, Oregon
1946 - 2018
Jim Jacobson passed away on December 18, 2018. Jim was born on May 6, 1946 in Portland Oregon to Leonard D. and Alice C. Wiesendanger Jacobson. He has one older brother A.D. and younger twin brothers, Jerry and John.
Jim attended schools in Eugene, and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1964. Later that year he joined the Naval Reserve and then enrolled in the University of Oregon as a pre-med student. After two years as a student, he volunteered for active duty as a corpsman (medic) in the Navy. He was assigned to the hospital corpsman school in San Diego where he learned that most Navy corpsman were actually assigned to work with the Marines.
Upon graduation from corpsman school, Jim was assigned to a hospital ship, USS Repose, off South Vietnam, but when he arrived in Vietnam (where the war was heating up) he was one of twelve new corpsmen who had a temporary assignment to a Marine Division operating near the border with North Vietnam. After a time of service with the Marines, he was re-assigned to the hospital ship. He quickly received promotions, in part because of his pre-med education, and was made NCO supervisor of the corpsmen receiving battle casualties transported via helicopter from the battlefield. During this time, they received some 140 to 150 severely burned sailors from the catastrophic fire in the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier accident.
After his one year term of service in Vietnam, Jim returned to Oregon in October of 1967 and was one of the first students of a new-to-Oregon Emergency Medical Technical (EMT) class, and then attended the paramedic training class at Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School in Portland. He worked as an emergency medical technician-paramedic in the Portland area for ten years, then was invited to serve as the primary medical technician for a large construction project in Utah for a year. After this, he returned to Oregon and worked as an EMT-Paramedic in the Roseburg area for another ten years.
Upon retirement in the late 1990s, Jim devoted himself to building his own MS-DOS personal computers and work in technical support for several computer software companies.
Jim was preceded in death by his father Leonard Jacobson.
There will be a memorial service for Jim at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland Oregon in January.
Arrangements entrusted to Musgrove Family Mortuary.
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