Wilma Leah Jacobs

It is with great sadness that the family of Wilma Leah Garbarino Jacobs announces her passing on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at AG Rhodes Nursing Center, Atlanta, GA at the age of 88. A Celebration of Life will be celebrated on Saturday, January 26, 2013, at Ardoin's Funeral Home Chapel in Elton, La. Burial will follow in the Liberty Cemetery, a family resting place with many of her ancestors and relatives buried there. Wilma had a long career in the Emory Hospital system as a Medical Technologist. She worked at Yerkes Primate Research Center, Scottish Rite and Wesley Woods Hospitals. She loved to sew, was a loyal church member, loved her family, and could tell great stories. Wilma was a devoted mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother who will always be remembered by those who knew and loved her especially her sons, Bert J. Jacobs and wife, Elizabeth, Gary T. Jacobs and wife Therese; daughter Nancy Jacobs Lovingood and husband, Thomas all from Atlanta; and Laura Locke Richard and husband, Donald of Bremerton, Washington, and former husband C. Jeff Jacobs of Palatka, Fla; eight grandchildren (Leah, Lynn, Donny, Grace, Isabel, William, Joseph, and Annie) and six great-grandchildren. A sister Ruth G. Horton, Tampa, Fla and brother, Bruce Garbarino, Elton, La survive her. She now rests in Heaven with her beloved; parents, BF and Lezina Bertrand Garbarino; three sisters Audrey Dougherty, Melba Hutchinson, and Loyce Steiner, and a brother, Med Garbarino. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, or Budd Terrace Nursing Home at Wesley Woods both in Atlanta, or the Alzheimer Foundation. A. S. Turner and Sons Funeral Home and Crematory.



Funeral Home:
A.S. Turner
2773 N. Decatur Road
Decatur, GA
30033