Grace Lee Harris Jacobus' Obituary
Grace Lee Harris Jacobus
Mitzi Jacobus, 81, died at her home in Longview on Monday, July 2, 2012.
She was born in Fort Worth and lived in Denton before her family moved to Longview while Mitzi was in elementary school. She graduated from Longview High School and Kilgore College, where she was a Rangerette. She married Roger Jacobus in 1950, and they moved to Odessa for a few years, then settled in Longview in 1958 with their three children. Mitzi was smart, funny and sweet, a homemaker who also worked. She was a medical transcriber and substitute teacher until her children got older, then spent 15 years in the insurance business, where she was promoted from a typist to an agent and eventually to vice president of marketing at Clark & Company. Mitzi loved gardening, classical music and reading, especially biographies and history. She attended all of the plays at the Longview Community Center for many years and loved the Longview Symphony. She enjoyed being at home and having friends, children and grandkids come by.
Mitzi was an unconventional thinker who could also be a rabble rouser, voting for fringe political candidates just to see if her vote would be counted in the newspaper the next day. She had a playful yet wry sense of humor and unique ideas about life and the universe. She didn't always embrace change, though -- she stayed mad for a long time after the Brookshire's on Johnston Street closed.
She was a member of the National Society of Magna Carta Dames and Barons and volunteered at the Gregg County Historical Museum.
Mitzi was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Roger, and sister, Patsy Moore, and is survived by her sister, Alice Collier; her children, Laura, Dale and Grace Jacobus; grandchildren Chris, Megan and Trevor Jacobus; and great-grandchildren Nikolas, Andrew and Carson Jacobus; two sisters-in-law, Florence Rowland and Joy Nuzum; six nieces, Ginny Anderson, Denise Perrino, Ann Vigil, Linda Moore, Mary Collier Pierce and Katey Delaney; and six nephews, Chuck Nuzum, Lee Moore, Robert Collier, Johnny Collier, Kyle Collier and Glenn Collier.
Memorials may be made to the Gregg County Historical Museum or Longview Symphony. After a private memorial service, visitation will be held at Rader Funeral Home from 5:30 till 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 5.
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