Julia Julie Eva Lazarus Jacobson

Julia Eva Jacobson; born August 14, 1922, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; parents had emigrated from Czarist Russia at the end of the 19th century. Julia was raised on a small farm in Juneau, Wisconsin; moved to Chicago after high school, and enrolled at Mt. Sinai Hospital Nursing School in Chicago, where she graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1946. Married Abraham Jacobson that same year, and she worked full time as a nurse in Chicago until the birth of her first son in 1948; her second son was born in 1951. While working as a registered nurse, she was one of the first to administer penicillin. The family moved to Southern California in 1952. Julia was a full time housewife and mother until the marriage of her daughter, the youngest of her five children. (She had had two more sons, 1954 and 1959, and her daughter was born in 1968; her husband had passed away in 1979.) In 1991, Julia resumed her career as a registered nurse and worked at various facilities in Long Beach through the end of the 1990’s. Her passion since the mid-1950’s was nutrition, and for many years she wrote a regular newsletter with health tips that circulated among her family and friends. She also acted in local productions of plays such as Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker. She was a woman who was ahead of her time, choosing to have a career of her own at a time when woman rarely did so, and she served as a role model for independence and personal responsibility. She was known for her strong mind, sharp wit and enormous generosity, and she had a profound effect on all who had a privilege of knowing her. Survived by four sons (Jake, Jeff, Larry and Dan), a daughter (Darlene) and three grandchildren from Darlene and Scott Boliver (Alec, Emily and Madeline); in Long Beach, of natural causes, on January 14, 2012.

In lieu of flowers please contribute to:

Scott Boliver Foundation

120 Clove

Brea, CA 92821

714/328-3625

Arrangements under the direction of Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park & Mortuary, Costa Mesa, CA.