Virginia Rose (Weems) Jacobs, 97, passed away on July 10, 2024. Virginia was born in Chickasha, OK, on August 21, 1926, to Walter Adrian and Elizabeth J. Weems. She attended school in Shawnee, OK, where she met her future husband, Carl E. Jacobs. They were married on July 1, 1944. They raised four Children before opening their home to many foster children. The final foster child, Catrina Joy, was adopted by Carl and Virginia in the late 1980s.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl E. Jacobs; her parents, Walter A. and Elizabeth J. Weems; sisters Zenobia and Maxine; brothers Manual, Sylvester (Skeet), WA “Jack” and Billy-Ray Weems; and grandsons Mike and Noah Shirey.
Virginia is survived by Marian and Dan Hembree, Stratford, TX; Brenda and Jimmy Blassingame, Shawnee, OK; Peggy Humphreys, Ardmore, OK; Catrina “Joy” Jacobs, Shawnee, OK; Carl and Jana Jacobs, Shawnee, OK; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-greatgrandchildren.
Services were held on July 15, 2024, at Tecumseh Cemetery with Reverend Clint Dawkins of Sharon Baptist Church, Tecumseh, officiating under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh.
