Alice Jane Jacobson

Alice Jane Jacobson, 86 was born on August 29, 1926, in Rugby, ND to Lewis Jacobson and Olena Jacobson (nee Fjellanger). After graduating from Rugby High School in 1944, she again heard the story of how Olena had looked around her home of Eskaliding, Norway, decided her future there was very limited, and decided to immigrate to America and try to get work and find a home near her older brother Andrew Fjellanger (the first of that family to immigrate). Olena's advice to Alice was to move west, where her oldest brother Alfred could help her.

Alice moved to the Seattle area and started working, with her brother, in the Lake Washington Shipyards, where Naval destroyers were being built for World War II. After the war, when the shipyard closed, she started working in accounting for the Seattle branch of the Bank of California. Her sister, Mabel, moved to the Seattle area from Spokane, and they lived together in an apartment in Seattle.

Alice was promoted from accounting to the teller line, and finally into loan approvals. Around 1964, the Bank of California offered Alice a transfer to their Los Angeles branch. She accepted, and she and Mabel moved to California.

In 1986, one of Alice's branch managers at the Bank of California came up with a pioneering idea of opening a brand new bank and asked Alice to help him start it, as Assistant Vice President in charge of Loans. She accepted, and worked with the Bank of Hollywood until 1992, when she retired .

Alice was a longtime volunteer for the Gene Autry Center. She was an active member of the Business and Professional Women of Glendale. She was an active member of Salem Lutheran Church. Everybody who knew or met Alice recognized that she was very modest, polite, considerate, and intelligent.

After a fall and injury in November of 2010, Alice returned to the Seattle area to be near her nephew, Lee Fjellanger, and lived in Anderson Plaza, a retirement community in Shoreline, WA. Alice passed away peacefully September 27, 2012, surrounded by loved ones.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Alfred Fjellanger and Leonard Jacobson, sisters Mabel Jacobson and Edith Nagele (nee Jacobson), sister-in-law Carol Jacobson (nee Schmaltz), brother-in-law Ernest Nagele, and nephew Duane Fjellanger.

Alice is survived by nieces and nephews: Lee Fjellanger, Dan Jacobson, Kenneth Jacobson, Jay Jacobson, Alfred Jacobson, Gerry Jacobson, Lester Jacobson, Ruth Jackson, Joanne Nagele, Susan Nagele, and Judy Niemela.. She was interred next to her sister Mabel at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, CA.