Kevin Jacobson

Kevin Todd Jacobson
Thursday, November 01, 2007

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CASPER -- Memorial services for Kevin Todd Jacobson, 43, will be held at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 1, 2007 at Newcomer Family Funeral Home. Cremation has taken place.

He died Oct. 28, 2007 in the Esterbrook area of the Laramie Range.

He was born June 10, 1964, in Casper to Clarence and Lucy (Patterson) Jacobson.

He graduated from Natrona County High School in 1983. During his school years he was active in the

4-H program with sheep, horses and leather. He was a bareback rider with the high school rodeo program.

He learned fencing, sheep sheering and ranching at a young age.

He served in the Army National Guard in the mid 1980's at Fort Dix, N.J.

On July 4, 1991, he married Paula Hunter. They had three children, Kody Glenn, 16; Kalyn Jo, 14 and Kendra Marie, 13.

He loved the outdoors hunting, fishing, camping in his outfitters tent, cooking over an open fire. He

especially loved camping and fishing in the Esterbrook area and along Horseshoe Creek in the Laramie Range.

The Bighorn Mountains also held a special place in his heart, especially Lake Angeline.

He was very creative, he loved working with wood and whittling, sketching horses and ranch scenes, working with leather. He was a top notch welder fabricating many items for his own use and for his family and

friends.

Horses were his passion. He loved teaching his children and nieces and nephews to ride. He was a

trainer, owner and trader of horses.

He was a welder by trade and a cowboy for life.

He is survived by his children, his mother, a sister, Cheryl Jacobson and a brother, Randy Jacobson, all of Casper and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his father, his maternal grandparents, Herschel and Lillian Patterson and his paternal grandparents, Jacob and Esther Jacobson, all of Minnesota.

Newcomer Family Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.