Martha Lucille Jacobson

September 24, 1933 - December 1, 2019

Martha Lucille Jacobson, 86, left us on December 1st, 2019 with her husband and daughters by her bedside at the Good Samaritan Society in Loveland, CO. Lucille (“Cille”) was born September 24th, 1933, in the countryside of Oilton, OK to Thelma and Leroy Evans. She graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS with a BA degree in education and later obtained her Masters degree in guidance counseling at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. Cille’s passions included teaching, quilting, spending time with family, and traveling. She and her husband adventured to all 400+ of the country’s national park sites together in their camper, often taking along their grandchildren. Her pioneering spirit and love of wild places instilled a deep appreciation for the natural world in everyone around her. Cille is survived by her husband Harold Lee Jacobson, daughters Kari Sever and Kala Buns, three granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren. Cille spent her last decade living in Colorado with her daughter and grandchildren nearby. Among Cille’s favorite books was The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, which describes death with the following words: “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”