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Obituary- Jacobson, John T. Sr.

JOHN T. JACOBSON
Services were at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Rossville for John T. Jacobson, 70, Rossville, who died Thursday, July 23, 1981, when a trench in which he was working at the Statehouse in Topeka collapsed.

Dr. W. Kiernan O’Callaghan, district coroner, performed an autopsy Friday and said Mr. Jacobson died of an internal hemorrhage of the chest.

Mr. Jacobson and a fellow worker, John Cline, 60, Havensville, were both thrown against the west side of the trench, in which they were laying drainage pipe, when the east side collapsed on them.

Cline was buried up to his waist and was rescued unharmed within 15 minutes of the collapse.

Mr. Jacobson was born January 24, 1911, at Hoyt, the son of Alfred T. and Lavina Tomlinson Jacobson.

Mr. Jacobson spent most of his life in the Delia and Rossville areas. He was a pipe layer for Herman’s Excavating, Topeka. He was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church.

A son, Billy Jacobson, died in 1943.

He married Catherine O’Conner in 1929 at Delia. She survives.

Other survivors include three sons, Robert Jacobson, Route 8, Topeka, John T. Jacobson Jr., Montrose, Colo., and Donald Jacobson, Rossville; four daughters, Betty Lambotte, Route 8, Topeka Kay Wild and Dorothy Lloyd, both of Rossville, and St Marys; three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Owens and Mrs. Frances Chumlet, Topeka, and Hazel Conner, Grove Okla., a stepbrother, Alfred Baker, Yates Center; 21 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery at St. Marys. Rosary was at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Verschelden Funeral Home, St. Marys. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and sent in care of the funeral home.