Carol Frances Jacobs passed away, surrounded by family, on January 31st, 2025, in Brush Prairie, Washington at the age of 85.
Carol was born March 21, 1939, in Tillamook, OR to Herman Bernard and Dorothy Esther (Chance) Jacobs. She graduated from Tillamook Catholic High School in 1957 and that summer she traveled to Chicago, IL where she resided for the next 12 years. While employed at Union Carbide Corp. in Chicago she met her future husband, Billy Donald Roth, also an employee. They were united in marriage on April 8, 1961, at St. Denis Catholic Church in Chicago. She started in banking at Argo State Bank in Summit, IL. In 1969, she returned to her home state of Oregon and settled in Portland. In 1970 she joined the staff of United States National Bank where she continued working in various branches and departments, most notably the Beaverton Branch, until her retirement in September 1994. The fall of 1995 brought her full circle, back to Tillamook, where she settled in Cape Meares. She was very content in her small home in Cape Meares and loved it most when filled with family and friends. It was a place of serenity, where she helped care for her aging mother in her last days. Carol later left her home at Cape Meares and moved in with her sister and brother-in-law in North Portland. Finally, she followed them to a different kind of sanctuary when they moved to Brush Prairie where she found joy playing cards and watching the deer and bunnies that wandered through the property.
Carol enjoyed baking, traveling, and the ocean. With the assistance of her sister, Therese, and later nieces and nephews, many beautiful wedding cakes were created for nieces, nephews and friends. Her birthday cakes, graduation cakes and other various occasion cakes were enjoyed by many. Love of traveling took her to Germany and France a number of times. She also had many adventures driving through numerous states, especially yearly travels to Colorado. Hours were spent walking on the beach, beach combing for shells, agates, coral, and the occasional float, and just enjoying the awesomeness and beauty of the ocean.
Carol was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Roth in 1992, her father Herman Jacobs in 1953, her mother Dorothy Jacobs in 2008, her brothers Bernard W Jacobs in 1996 and Gerald W. Jacobs in 1943, Victor F Jacobs in 2013, Philip R Jacobs, 2015, Donald M Jacobs in 2016, sister Lois Jean Chism in 2008, cousins who were members of her second family in Colorado, Mary Therese Buckley in 2021, Timothy J Buckley in 2018, and Kevin F Buckley in 2009, three nephews Gerald W Chism in 2005 and Steven Patterson, in 1983 and Michael Chism in 2011, and two nieces Denise Y Chism Lovins in 2017, and Roni Jean Branham in 2022.
She is survived by her brothers and sisters Therese (Jacobs) and Jerry White of Brush Prairie, WA, Raymond Jacobs of Tillamook, Myra (Jacobs) and Mike Fisher of Roll, AZ, Ruth (Jacobs) and James Bohle of Eugene, OR, Stephen Jacobs of Tillamook, OR, sister-in-law Bobbi. Jacobs, of Tillamook, OR, cousins Maeve (Buckley) and Robert Garcia of Colorado, and numerous nieces and nephews, most notably Tara (White) and Mark Duplessie, Paul and Mandie White, Brett and Holly White, Brian and Marci White, Kasha (White) and Matt Smith, Angela (Patterson) and Alec Laidlaw, Ben White, Ember (White) and Michael Ramirez, who were with her in the end, as well as Dawn (Jacobs) and Donny Hahn, and Tavanne (Chism) and Bob Burch, and also by even more grand and great-grand nieces and nephews that she loved dearly and who carry on her legacy.
A vigil and recitation of the Rosary with viewing will be held at Waud’s Funeral Home in Tillamook, OR on Thursday, February 6th, at 5:30 PM. A viewing and Rosary will be said, followed by the Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, February 7th, at 9 AM at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Portland, OR; reception to follow. Arrangements are through Waud’s Funeral Home in Tillamook, OR, where flowers may be sent. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to St. Vincent De Paul.