Leo Martin Jacobsen (1913 - 1997)

Born 10 Aug 1913 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Husband of Rosebud (Marshall) Jacobsen — married 27 Jun 1939 in Salt Lake LDS Temple

Biography

On March 28, 1997 the earth flinched surely but imperceptibly as it released from mortality a remarkable, hard-to-replace 83 year old man, Leo Martin Jacobsen.

Born in SLC August 10, 1913 to Soren and Anna Jensen Jacobsen. Attended Emerson Elementary, Roosevelt Junior High, LDS High, and the University of Utah (BA-Banking and Finance 1938). Served three-year LDS mission to Norway and later presided over that mission for three years. Throughout his adult years, he has done much to increase the understanding of Norwegian and Danish officials, students, and writers concerning the LDS Church.Optimistic, adventurous, creative, organized, faithful, energetic, honorable, generous and simultaneously firm and tender-hearted. Friend, teacher, Scoutmaster, high priest, traveler, pilot, sailor, fisher, and skier. Player of tennis, squash, golf, backgammon and ping pong. Began work in the construction industry as a water boy, then carpenter, and eventually served with great effectiveness as president and chairman of Jacobsen Construction Company. Director of ZCMI for 25 years.

Wisely married Rosebud Marshall of Tooele in the Salt Lake Temple in 1939. She enlivened, tempered, enriched and generally blessed his life and he hers. She died in 1990.They are parents of Ted (Charlotte) and Craig (Susan) of SLC; Richard (Susan) of Palo Alto, California; and a deceased daughter, Christine Cannon (Jamie). Later married Elizabeth Blair Murray of Newport Beach, California. She has brought and continues to bring great love and enthusiasm to the entire Jacobsen family. Her children are Sally Boyer (Paul) of Park City and Amanda Bellessa (David) of Dallas. Leo is also survived by 8 granddaughters, 21 grandsons, 10 great-grandchildren , his brother, Ted C. Jacobsen (Florence) and two sisters, Margaret Bennion and Ruth Kirby.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Wednesday, April 2, 1997 at the Bonneville Stake Center, 1535 East Bonneview Drive (1020 South), SLC. Friends may call at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday or at the stake center on Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. In lieu of flowers, Leo suggested contributing to the Scandinavian Scholarship Fund, c/o Erland Peterson, A-185 ASB, BYU, 84602.

Sources

• www.deseretnews.com/article/551956/Death--Leo-M-Jacobsen.html
• "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940", database, FamilySearch [1] : 31 July 2017, Leo Martin Jacobsen and Rosebud Marshall, 1939.
• "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914," database with images, FamilySearch [2] : 18 March 2018, Leo Martin Jacobsen, 10 Aug 1913; citing Salt Lake,Salt Lake,Utah,United States; citing p. 212, ref. ID # 2385, Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City; FamilySearch digital folder 101044886.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch [3] : 13 December 2015, Leo M Jacobsen, 1997; Burial, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park; citing record ID 56337744, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch [4] : 20 May 2014, Leo M Jacobsen, 28 Mar 1997; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).