Margaret Alice Jacobsen-Bender

Or you can smile because she lived.

You can close your eyes and hope she'll be back,

Or you can open your eyes and see what she has left behind

Margaret Alice Jacobsen Bender passed away

peacefully in her sleep, attended by her family and Providence Hospital, in her own home, March 24th, 2012 at age 96 after a good long life of challenges and achievements. Born in Seattle on Nov. 11, 1915 to "Gussie" Elizabeth (Stringfield) and "Jack" John Spriggs, she was an only child and lived all her life in Seattle. Margaret married Chris Jacobsen in 1936. She designed and to¬gether they built their home in Shoreline, as well as a summer cabin on Elger Bay, Camano Island. When Chris became sick, Margaret went to work for J.C. Penney at Aurora Village. She worked her

way up from sales person to manager. Chris Jacobsen died in 1964, and Margaret married Walter Bender in 1967. She was active, with a group of close knit neighbors, in support of the Children's Orthopedic Hospital. An accomplished

drawer and watercolor painter, she took up wood carving later in life and one of her projects was a totem pole for the cabin on Camano. Gracious, generous, wise, supportive matriarch of the Jacobsen clan, she leaves behind her children from her marriage to Chris Jacobsen: Judi Marie Weiser, "Jake" Donald Jacobsen and wife Sharon, Lofli (Lorene) Jacobsen and husband Ron Bloomquist; her grandchildren Martin Evan Loberg and wife Jasmine, Laura Rae Weiser, Lezli Kae Carroll and husband Damon; great grandchildren Jason and

Nicole Carroll, "Stina" Christina Fleugge and husband Kurt; great grandchildren Karina and Lukas Fleugge. She will be sorely missed, but we are grateful for the time we had with her.