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OBITUARY: DR. DONALD RAY JACOBS
Dr. Donald R. Jacobs, of Waynesburg, a local physician since 1926 widely-known throughout Greene County, died at 10:45 p.m. Saturday, March 17, 1962, in Greene County Memorial Hospital following a brief hospitalization.
Except for his service in World War I as a medical Navy corpsman before he had entered medical school and World War II service as an Army Medical Corps officer, Dr. Jacobs had devoted almost all of his adult life to the practice of his profession in Greene County. He was principal of the Bristol, W. Va., High School in 1919-20.
Dr. Jacobs was born December 4, 1892, near Bristoria, Greene County, a son of William R. Jacobs and Florence Scott Jacobs, both deceased.
He attended the elementary schools in Greene County and attended California State College and Waynesburg College, graduating in the class of 1918.
After service in the Navy as a medical corpsman in World War I he entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. He was graduated from medical school in 1924 and after internship in St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh, he became associated with his uncle, the late Dr. G. M. Scott, in Waynesburg, in July, 1926.
In World War II he was an officer in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, advancing to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Waynesburg, the Greene County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, the American Medical Association and a Fellow in the Geriatrics Society.
Fraternally he was a member of the James Farrell Post 330, American Legion, of the Greene County Voiture of the Forty and Eight Society, the Fort Jackson Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Waynesburg Lodge No. 469, I.O.O.F., B. P. O. Elks 757, Waynesburg, and a number of Masonic organizations.
His Masonic affiliations included the following: Lodge 153, F. and A. M., Waynesburg; Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Harrisburg; Shrine Lodge, Zimbo Temple.
Dr. Jacobs was married September 29, 1927 to Nellie Church, of Rogersville, who survives as do their two sons and one daughter, Charles Church Jacobs, a Pharmacist at Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Dr. Donald Warren Jacobs, a dentist at the Naval Air Test Center, at Lexington Park, Md.; and Miss Marjorie Jacobs, a Registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver, Colo. Also by three grandchildren, Joyce Susanne Jacobs of Cleveland Heights, Donald Marshall and Carol Anne Jacobs of Lexington Park, Md.; by one sister, Mrs. Grover C. Hughes, of Waynesburg, and one brother, Ralph Jacobs, of Waynesburg, RD 3. One brother, Allen Jacobs, died Jan. 20, 1962. |
