- Father Jacobs Will Be Buried On Thursday
Services To Be Held At Cooperstown Church For Priest Killed In Auto Accident Struck down by an oncoming car whose driver could not see the parked automobile in front of him owing to glaring lights from an approaching car, Rev. "ernard Jacobs, priest of the St. James Catholic church at Cooperstown, sustained a fractured skull and crushed chest which caused his death as he was being rush- ed to a hospital at Green Bay shortly before midnight Sunday. Omar Hansen, 19-year-old Two Rivers student, was not held following his report of the circumstances to the authorities. Rev. Jacobs, 52,; was returning to Cooperstown from Wrightstown in company with his two sisters, Miss Mary, and Frances Jacobs, and his nephew, Bernard Jacobs of Appleton, when the right rear tire became punctured. He halted his machine on the right side of the road on Highway 141 about 400 feet north of the Manitowoc county line, and was engaged in the repair of the tire when the Hansen machine approached from Denmark and struck him. Didn't See Parked Car Hansen did not see, the parked automobile until too late to avoid the collision, according to a statement made by him, and rather than strike an oncoming car he sought to pass the Jacobs automobile on the right shoulder of the road, but in doing so struck Father Jacobs. He immediately halted his car and placed the injured man. into it for the run to Green Bay, but the injuries proved fatal before the hospital was reached. Rev. Jacobs had been in charge of the Cooperstown parish since 1922 having come to that township after serving in Oshkosh, in Brown county and other places since his ordination in 1909. He was born in Holland and came to this country and to Appleton with his parents in 1883 and had been an almost continuous resident of this state. Funeral services will be held at the St. James church at Cooperstown at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, and interment will be made at St. Joseph's cemetery at Appleton. Father Jacobs-was popular with his parishoners and the community in which he served, and his tragic death has cast a pall over the northern section of the county in which he was widely known.
Sheboygan Press, The | Sheboygan, Wisconsin | Tuesday, July 29, 1930 | Page 4
FORMER OSHKOSH PRIEST INTERRED AT COOPERSTOWN
Rites Are Held for Rev. Bernard Jacobs, for Three Years Assistant at St. Vincent's Church More than 100 priests attended services held Wednesday at St. James Catholic church at Cooperstown, Wis., for the parish pastor, Rev. Bernard Jacobs, formerly assistant priest at St. Vincent's church here, who died Sunday night as a result of Injuries received when he was struck by an automobile while changing a tire on a highway near bis home. Father Jacobs left Oshkosh about fifteen years ago, after having served is assistant at the south side church about three years. He was 52 years of, age.
BISHOP OFFICIATES
Rites at the Cooperstown church were conducted by Rev. Paul Rhode, Bishop of the Green Bay diocese. The sermon was delivered by Father Herb, of Stockbridge. Father Schiller was celebrant at the mass. Burial took place at St. Joseph's cemetery at Appleton, the deceased's native city, Monsignor Lochman, of Kaukauna, reading the commitment service. Father Jacobs' survivors are four sisters, Sister Miriam of St Mary's Springs academy. Fond du Lac; Sister Leona, of Houghton, Mich., and the Misses Mary and Frances Jacobs, both of Cooperstown, and three brothers, Michael, Peter and Theodore Jacobs, all of Appleton.
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern | Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Thursday, July 31, 1930 | Page 10
PRIEST KILLED CHANGING TIRE
Rev. Bernard J a c o b s , Cooperstown, Is Former Resident of Appleton The Rev. Bernard Jacobs, 52. for many years priest at St. James Catholic church. Cooperstown and formerly a resident of Appleton, was fatally injured when struck by an automobile while repairing a tire shortly before midnight Sunday on highw: y 141 near the Brown-co line. The priest died before reaching a Green Bay hospital. The car which struck Rev. Jacobs was driven by Omar Hansen, a Two Rivers youth who was returning home after visiting relatives at Denmark. He attempted to pass the Jacobs car, which was parked on the highway, but seeing another car approaching from the south and being unable to stop, he swerved to pass on the right hand side, where he struck the priest, fracturing his skull and crushing his chest. Rev. Jacobs was driving with two sisters. Misses Mary and Frances Jacobs, who live with him at Cooperstown and a nephew, Bernard, son of Mi- chael Jacobs, Appleton. Frank Houdek, Brown-co coroner who investigated the accident, reported it accidental and announced no inquest would be held. Father Jacobs was born in Holland and lived in Appleton from 1883 until he began studying for the priesthood. He studied at Mt. Calvary at St. Meinard, Viennia, and St. Nazianz, St. Nazianz, Ind., and was ordained in 1910. He then lived in Oshkosh for three years going from there to Glenmore, Brown-co, for 10 years and then to Cooperstown. Survivors are three brothers, Michael Jacobs of Appleton, Peter Jacobs of Wrightstown and Peter Peters, West DePere; four sisters, Mary and Frances of Cooperstown, Sister Leona of Houghton, Mich., and Sister Miriam, Fond du Lac, both, of the St. Agnes order. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from St. James Catholic church, Cooperstown, with burial in the afternoon at St. Joseph cemetery, Appleton.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Monday, July 28, 1930 | Page 4
REV. BERNARD JACOBS
Funeral services for Rev. Bernard Jacobs, Cooperstown, who was killed when struck by an automobile Sunday evening on highway 141 near the Brown-co line, will be held Wednesday at St. James church, Cooperstown, his former pastorate. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery, Appleton, Wednesday afternoon.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Tuesday, July 29, 1930 | Page 13
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