Jacobs, Louise

Lou Tice Jacobs, formerly of Hinsdale, died February 6, 2008 at the King-Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge, her home for the past four years. Mrs. Jacobs, 89, was born and reared on the family farm near Greenview, Illinois. She attended the Greenview schools and graduated from the University of Illinois where she was a member of Shi Ai and Kappa Delta sorority. During World War II she joined the American Red Cross. She served as a social worker at the Infantry Base Hospital in Salina, Kansas and as the Assistant Field Director at the Sedalia, Missouri Air Base Hospital, where she met her future husband. Following the war she volunteered at the Red Cross Home Chapter in Binghamton, New York. Mrs. Jacobs was preceded in death by her parents Karl and Alice Tice, one sister Georgia Boeker, two brothers Bruce and Bobbie, and Robert, her husband of 58 years. She is survived by two sons Michael (Diane), Stephen (Patricia Curley), a daughter Judy Miller (Stephen), five grandchildren, three great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held in Elmwood Cemetery, Greenview, on February 21, 2008 at 11:00 am, the Reverend Charlotte Poetschner officiating. Mott & Henning Funeral Home of Athens will be in charge of arrangements