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弗吉尼亚雅各布斯吉布森1925年11月24日- 11月23日,2021年弗吉尼亚雅各布斯吉布森安详地去世了11月23日,2021年。她抱着她的儿子的手,托德。这是在她96岁生日的前一天。她艰难的科罗拉多州东部的农民。她很甜蜜和爱。她在刷长大,科罗拉多州,他们提出了甜菜。弗吉尼亚是最小的五个女儿出生在7年。她在死亡的姐妹,根据6月,拉维尼娅,米尔德里德和了塞尔玛(98岁)。所有的姐妹们去上大学,因为教育是为这些Germans-from-Russia在他们的新国家。父亲和母亲莫莉,他在1907年移民,约翰,到1912年,很幸运在1917年之前离开俄罗斯。 Virginia was almost four when the Stock Market crashed, and knew of that hardship growing up. It formed that generation. College was in Greeley and Fort Collins. She worked nights for the phone company, sleeping when the switchboard wasn’t busy. Her degree was in Home Economics. After graduating, she moved to Grand Junction. In her first year as a teacher, she met Marion Jacobs. They married in 1949, after “Jake’s” summer band camp and before the start of school. Three boys followed: Stephen, Kent and Todd. She taught, raised a family and traveled with the band and orchestra on their tri-annual trips. Music was an every day part of her life with Jake’s music lessons every evening and on Saturday mornings. Her Jake died too early in 1979, two years after his retirement. She later married Lee Gibson, a dear friend and former band parent, who died in 1989. They had seven wonderful years together, with lots of travels and gardening. She loved her roses and flower gardens. She continued to travel the world, visiting her parent’s homestead in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. One day she “couldn’t get up from pulling weeds in the garden” and moved into independent living. Later she moving to Centennial to be near Kent and Stephen. She never had COVID, but, over the two years of isolation, her health failed from too much inactivity. She suffered pulmonary embolisms and couldn’t recover her health. She had six grandchildren. We will always keep her memory in our hearts.