Services for Irene Jacobsen, 93 of Blair and formerly of Omaha who died December 25, 1995 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, December 29 at First Central Congregational Church in Omaha with burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home.

Irene Weber Jacobsen was born March 7, 1902 in the Weber home, located in Grasshopper Township, Atchinson County near Muscotah, Kansas. She was the third of seven children of Freeman W. and Susan Caroline Russell Weber.

She graduated from Brush Creek Country School in Atchison County, Kansas and attended Atchison County High School in Effingham, Kansas. She then attended Grand Island Business College in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Upon completing the course at Grand Island Business College, she worked as a secretary for Jones Motor Company in Hastings, Nebraska.

On June 24, 1925, she married Robert H. Jacobsen of Monroe, Nebraska in the Brush Creek farm home of her parents.

She and her husband made their home in Omaha. In June of 1987, she moved to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair.

She was a past member of the Dundee Methodist Church and in 1946 joined the First Central Congregational Church, where she was a member of the Christian Service Group and the Nautilus Club. She was a Brownie and Girl Scout leader for 10 years and was active in the PTA at Colombian School.

She belonged to the Maple Leaf Chapter and later the Ak-Sar-Ben Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. She was an amateur accredited judge of flower shows and belonged to the Eastern Area Nebraska Flower Show Judges Council, Fontenelle Park Garden Club, the Dundee Garden Club, Ikebana International Omaha Chapter and was a life member of the National Council of Garden Clubs. She belonged to the Historical Society of Douglas County, the Ladies Auxiliary to the Order of Railroad Conductors and was past president of the Ladies Auxiliary to Union Pacific Old Timers Club No. 3. She was a former member of the Helping Hand Group.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, Arthur Weber, Albert Weber and George Weber and a sister, Grace Monson.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Delbert and Barbara Jacobsen, Conaga Park, California; a daughter and son-in-law, Marjorie and Alfred Johnson, Blair; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two sisters, Maybelle Posty, Irving, Texas and Esther Hisle, Weiser, Idaho and a sister-in-law, Emma Weber, Topeka, Kansas.