Lawrence Jacobson

Another of the greatest generation, World War II veteran Private First Class, honor guard for General MacArthur at American Embassy in Tokyo passed away peacefully at home in Santa Barbara CA at age 96.75 years. Larry was born on a farm near Kensington, Minnesota, worked as an apprentice in the Naval shipyard in Bremerton WA before serving in the Army. He became a Senior Reliability Engineer for 40 years at GM/Delco/Hughes in Goleta. One of the many projects he worked on was the Lunar rover.

You could take Larry off the farm, but you couldn’t take the farm out of Larry. He loved his one acre and planted it with Cherimoyas, blood oranges, Valencia oranges, navel oranges, lemons, plums, nectarines, plums, pluouts, apricots, apriums, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, pomegranates, bananas, apples and flowers.

He enjoyed growing and sharing rare, exotic fruits with friends and family in addition to fishing, camping, and trailering the Al-Can highway to Alaska once.

He is survived by his loving wife of 74 years, Elaine, and his son Richard of South Lake Tahoe and daughter Patti Jacobson Ball (Glen) of Camarillo.and grandson Kevin Ball of Santa Barbara.

A celebration of life is planned for a later date at the family home.