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- Merlin M. Jacobs
Merlin M. Jacobs, 75 died Friday in Ball Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Jacobs was born in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Muncie as a child with his parents, Otis and Beulah Jacobs. He attended Central High School.
Mr. Jacobs retired from Chevrolet-Muncie (now New Venture Gear) in 1982. He was in the Merchant Marine during World War II and was a member of Avondale Sympathy Club.
Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Eunice Jacobs; a son, Philip Jacobs, Peru; several grandchildren; three nieces, LaVonne Bell, Eaton, and Sharon Breese and Linda Phillips, both of Mundeline, Ill.; a nephew Ron Phillips, Mundeline; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday in Meeks Mortuary. Entombment will be in Elm Ridge Mausoleum.
Calling at the mortuary will be 3-6 Sunday and before services Monday.
Muncie Evening Press, Muncie, Indiana. Saturday, 3 April 1993.
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- LKH note:
Find a Grave gives his mother's name as Rosella (Winters) Jacobs.
His obituary gives his mother's name as Beulah, who according to Find a Grave is his father's second wife Beulah Swihart.
It appears from Find a Grave that Merlin Jacobs married twice. Merlin and Juanita Thornburg married in 1936 and divorced before 1946. Merlin married Eunice Elma Estep in 1946. Eunice was the widow of Merlin's half-brother, Robert Louis Jacobs (1925-1945).
From news articles, when Robert died in March 1945, he and Eunice were in the midst of divorcing.
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