Donald L. JACOBS M.D.

JACOBS

Donald L. Jacobs, M.D., age 92, died Thursday April 14, 2001 . He was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of the late Lester and Flora Jacobs. He graduated from Western Hills High School in 1937 where he was voted Most Outstanding Senior Boy and earned numerous varsity letters in athletics and was later elected to the Western Hills High School Athletic Hall of Fame. He attended the University of Cincinnati on a football scholarship and graduated from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in 1943. Don served as a captain and medical doctor in the U.S. Army during WWII. He practiced general surgery in Cincinnati for over 36 years and was the Director of Surgery at Deaconness Hospital for many years. Don served as team doctor for the University of Cincinnati football and basketball teams from 1950 through 1968. In 1968, he received the Outstanding UC Alumni award. Upon his retirement from medicine in 1986, he moved to his Georgetown, Kentucky farm. Don was also a longtime owner and breeder of American Saddlebred horses and a passionate art collector. He served as Chairman of the International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park for many years and has also served on the boards of the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation, University of Kentucky Art Museum, and Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. He served as Chairman of the Board of the American Saddlebred Museum and was instrumental in its move to the Kentucky Horse Park. Don established the Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College and has also received an honorary doctorate degree from Georgetown College. He received special recognition and awards from both the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation and Georgetown College for his philanthropy. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Dorothy S. Jacobs; his five sons - Donald S. Jacobs (Lynn) of Cincinnati, Brent Jacobs (Jane) of Georgetown, Daniel Jacobs (Melissa) of Asheville, NC, Stephen Jacobs (Colleen) of Cincinnati and Andrew Jacobs (Betsy) of Lexington. In addition, he is survived by 12 grandchildren - Donald P., Stephanie, Audrey, Brooke, Julia, Summer, Brittany, Brandon, Breanna, Bailey, Olivia and Caroline Jacobs and one great-grandchild, William Jacobs. He was preceded in death by his two sisters, Viola Reiss and Joyce Bolsen. Visitation will be 4-6 P.M., Sunday at Johnson's Funeral Home in Georgetown KY. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Monday at Westwood United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, with visitation after 10:30 A.M.at the church. Burial will be in Spring Grove Cemetery. Expressions of Sympathy may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 2312 Alexandria Drive, Lexington, KY 40504-3277. www.johnsonsfuneralhome.com