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Died: July 8, 2005
Married: Virginia Jakobe
Children: Henry G. Jakobe Jr.
Henry George Jakobe was a World War II veteran. He was an art teacher in the Saranac Lake High School until his retirement in 1985; he also operated an antique shop and studio, the Sign of the Fish, in the old Episcopal Church in Bloomingdale, and another in what was the D. Cohen and Sons Hardware Store, also in Bloomingdale. His wife, Virginia, also taught art for the Saranac Lake Central School District. 1 They lived at 12 Rockledge Road.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 16, 2005
Henry George Jakobe Sr
SARANAC LAKE - Henry George Jakobe Sr., of 47 Rockledge Lane, Saranac Lake, and Bonne Terre, Mo, died July 8, 2005, of heart failure at his home in Bonne Terre. He was 85.
He was born Feb 24,1920, in Tennessee, the son of Henry Joseph Jakobe and Lucie Shepard Jakobe The family moved to Bonne Terre, where Henry George graduated from Bonne Terre High School and Westminster College, in Fulton, Mo., where he joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Mr Jakobe joined the U S. Army during World War II, and served two-and-a-half years in the Aleutian Islands. Following his discharge, he earned a master of arts degree from Washington University, in St Louis, and a master's degree in education from Columbia University. Subsequently he did graduate work in art at the University of Virginia and in English literature at Harvard.
An artist, Mr. Jakobe was employed by Bassett and Vollum, Chicagb, to design wallpaper. On his return to Missouri, he became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. He also served as program director and board member for the Peoples' Art Center. For several seasons he had a program, "You Are the Artist," on St Louis's public broadcasting station. His paintings were exhibited in several shows at the St Louis Art Museum and Columbia University.
He taught art at St Louis University City High School, the Belleville (Ill.) high school and Belleville Junior College.
On Feb 23> 1963, he married Virginia Ellis at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bonne Terre. The couple moved to Saranac Lake with their young son, Henry George Jr., in 1967. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jakobe taught art in the Saranac Lake Central schools.
Mr. Jakobe was a charter member of the Saranac Lake Paint and Palette organization. Under his presidency, the group visited area museums, including those in Glens Falls and Montreal, at Middlebury College, and the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. He served on the vestry at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and for the past 35 years has owned and operated the Sign of the Fish antique shop in Bloomingdale.
Besides his wife and son, Mr. Jakobe is survived by his daughter-in-law Jessica and grandson Tucker William, both of Saranac Lake.
Those wishing to remember Mr. Jakobe are asked to contribute to St Luke's Episcopal Church, 136 Main St., the Saranac Lake Free Library, 100 Main St., or Hospice Care Inc., P O Box 1000, Park Mills, MO 63601
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1. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 23, 1986
