Marilyn Alice Jacober

Marilyn Alice Jacober passed away January 27, 2017 at Westlake Care Community at the age of 53 years. Marilyn was born April 15th 1963 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, the daughter of Edwin and Alice (Barnhart) Jacober. Marilyn accepted Jesus as her savior March 6th, 1977 and was baptized at Truett Memorial Baptist Church on Easter Sunday April 10th, 1977. Marilyn started her schooling at “The Little Red School House”, followed by Kindergarten at Edgewater Elementary. At that time there was a move to build two new Special Education schools. After 2 or 3 years of using classrooms in various buildings around the area the new schools were ready and Marilyn finished her schooling at Margret Walters School in Wheat Ridge at the age of 18.

Marilyn was involved in Special Olympics during this time participating in basketball and swimming. One year she was thrilled to travel to the Air Force Academy to spend a weekend participating in state Olympics. The following summer she moved with her family to Westcliffe, Colorado where she enjoyed living in the Wet Mountains, hiking in the summer, cutting and splitting fire wood in the fall, snowmobiling in the winter, and reading rural electric meters about four days a month. She had the happiest personality of one with Down Syndrome and loved going to church, WMU meetings, pot lucks, etc. She also enjoyed trips to Canon City or Pueblo for a day of shopping with her Mom and Aunt Dottie. Marilyn also loved to bowl and do latch hook rugs. With her smiles and hugs Marilyn brought a ray of sunshine into the lives of all who met her and she will be greatly missed. She was preceded in death by her four Grandparents Leonard and Iva Barnhart and Chris and Bessie Jacober, her father Edwin, sister-in-law Jacquie and is survived by her mother Alice, her brother Mark, and a host of Aunts, Uncles and Cousins.

Visitation Friday, February 3, 2017, 4pm to 7pm at Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary. Services Saturday, February 4, 2017, 11am in the Pavilion of Reflection located on the grounds of Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary & Cemetery. Interment at Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations to either: Fellowship Bible Church, 2201 Jay Street, Edgewater, Colorado 80214, or Special Olympics Colorado, 384 Inverness Parkway, Ste 100, Englewood, Colorado 80112-5822.

Arrangements under the direction of Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary, Cemetery & Arboretum, Wheat Ridge, CO.