----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 05/ /1966

Jakobi, Anna (1874 - 1966)

GREENWOOD--Mrs. Anna Jakobi, 91, died early Tuesday morning, May 17, 1966 at the Bethel Convalescent Home in Arpin, where she had resided for the past five years.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenwood with the Rev. Leroy Urman officiating. Burial will be made in the Veefkind Lutheran cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood from this afternoon until 11 a.m. Thursday, and then at the church.

The former Anna Mahloch was born Oct. 11, 1874, in the Town of Millhome, Manitowoc County. Her marriage to Fred Jakobi, who preceded her in death Dec. 1, 1944, took place April 21, 1894, in Kiel.

After their marriage the couple lived on a farm in Manitowoc Co., and then came to Wood County where they resided for several years before coming to Clark County. The couple operated a farm northeast of Granton until their retirement in 1933. Since then they had made their home with their children.

Mrs. Jakobi was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Greenwood.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. William (Margaret) Denzine, Phillips; and Mrs. Vincent (Anita) Schmidt, Belgium, Wis.; five sons, William, Bakersfield, Calif.; Walter, Marshfield; Fred, Unity; John, Loyal; and Rolan, Granton 29 grandchildren 75 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Conrad four brothers and two sisters.