Leonard S. Jacobson

Leonard Jacobson, 90, of Argyle, MN, died in Karlstad Senior Living, on August 8, 2025, happy to leave life (and all those things he didn't like about old age) behind him.

Leonard Stephen was born on July 15, 1935, in Stephen, MN, the eight child John and Mayme (Cormier) Jacobson. Growing up on what would become a century farm, Leonard learned early to work land his grandfather broke. After high school, Leonard moved to Minneapolis where he got a job at the Armour meat plant and ran around with a group of young men from back home. He enlisted in the US Army in 1958 and was stationed in Alaska as a cook: so far as we know there were no casualties. When his time was up, he happily returned home to, in his words, “save the farm,” working alongside his father while his mother was ill. He later became the sole operator of the Jacobson Farm and took care of his dad in his last years. Sometime in those years he owned a bar called “Jake's Hideaway” in Halma, MN. Leonard enjoyed wintering in Truth or Consequences, NM; traveling regularly; being active in St. Stephen Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, and the Stephen American Legion; and helping with TEC retreats in the diocese. The last of these was particularky formative and Leonard for a time considered the diaconate.

For all of this, Leonard was not always social. It was hard to know where you stood with him, and he liked to present as little “salty.” Even so, his family was still his family, and he never lost the faith of his childhood.

Surviving are a fair handful of nieces, nephews, and their families; and preceding him in death are his parents; all of his siblings; sister, Elizabeth Edman; and brothers, Henry, Bernard (killed in WWII), Roger, Dennis, and Walton Jacobson.

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL: Saturday, August 16, 2025, at 10:30 AM, in St. Stephen Catholic Church, Stephen, MN.
VISITATION: the evening of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, Friday August 15, 2025, from 5:00 PM, with a Rosary at 6:30 PM.
INTERMENT: Next to his brother, Bernard, in St. Stephen Cemetery.
MILITARY HONORS: Stephen American Legion Post 390, and the US Army Honor Guard.