
Thinking of you and your family in this time of sorrow. Hugs to you Mike. Louise Fechter
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Louise Fechter
I am forever grateful to the Jacobs family for their kindness and friendship shown to my father during his latter years.
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Lucy Jackson Whitley
He was the best even to a very poor math student!
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Luci Launius
My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
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Bobby Tanner
Mr. Jacobs was responsible for hiring me here in Walton County back in 1982. He was the 4th person that I met in Walton County. The first day I met Mr. Jacobs, I knew that this is the place I wanted to be and the man I wanted to work for. My first 10 years in education and coaching he was my principal at Carver Jr. High. If I am not mistaken he may have been the spearhead behind the Middle Georgia Junior High Athletic League that later became Metro Middle School, Piedmont Athletic League to where they are now. If he did not start the league, I do know he was commissioner for years. So sir and family thank you for sharing your dad, brother, brother in law with us. God bless!
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Coach Timothy Kemp
I moved to the Walton County area in the summer of 1981. The following school year,Mr.Jacob gave me my first teaching position. I taught under this magnificent man who molded me into a fine specimen of the teacher that I became.
And for that I shall be forever grateful!! I taught under his guidance and COMMAND for eleven years and cried like a newborn baby
when he retired.
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Epsie Ann Stover
Bob Jacobs was my Algebra and Trigonometry teacher when I was a senior in high school, and was Assistant Principal and later Principal as I began my teaching career at then Carver Junior High School. I spent eighteen years of my thirty under his direction.
Mr. Jacobs was an exceptional teacher, leader, man, and friend. He fostered a faculty that was like family, and we remain close at heart today. He was fun-loving and kind, but could be stern when needed (yes, that “Radar” came in handy sometimes.) He enjoyed teasing folks; if you looked closely you could tell when by the twinkle in his eye. He treated everyone with respect, and he believed and expressed to students that all of them should and could live up to their potential, and led us as teachers to help make that happen.
There are so many stories from those eighteen years, but there is one that he loved to tell on me. Snow came early and heavy that day and the decision was made to send the children home early. The story involved a big snowball thrown by me and meant for, I think, Reba or maybe Lee, who fortunately or unfortunately, ducked. I watched that big snowball -in slow motion- head straight toward the face of my BOSS…and make contact! I was horrified, and waited for reprimand, but after a few seconds of total shock, Mr. Jacobs’ face broke into the biggest grin you’ve ever seen! The last few times I spoke with him he enjoyed reminding me of that incident.
Mr. Jacobs was a fine man who will be missed, but his legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of his family, his friends, his students, and all of us who were fortunate to have worked with him.
Dotti Connell, Monroe, Georgia
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Dotti Connell
Your family is in our prayers.
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Erik & Edwina Charles