Charlotte C. Jacobs

Weston - Mrs. Charlotte C. (Cody) Jacobs, of Weston, died Thursday, October 7, 2010 at Beaumont Nursing Home in Natick after a lengthy illness. She was 91.

Charlotte was born in Fairview, New Jersey on January 28, 1919, a daughter of the late Thomas and Elsa (Strom) Cody. She was known to many as “Stina,” a nickname given by her grandfather. Her mother, Elsa Strom Cody, was born in Stockholm, and her father, Thomas Cody, was from County Cork. Her father died of the Spanish Flu shortly before Charlotte’s birth. Charlotte and sister Kathleen, her only sibling, remained close throughout their lives. After Tom Cody died, the family moved to Waltham to live with Elsa’s father, Franz Strom, in a house he had built on land adjacent to Prospect Hill Park. When Elsa later contracted tuberculosis, Charlotte and her sister visited her weekly during the two years she was a patient at Waltham’s county sanitarium.

In 1941, Charlotte married Mathew Jacobs of Weston. Living in Waltham, the couple had four sons: Peter, Steven, George, and Thomas. They moved to Sudbury in 1950, where they lived in a mountain lodge adjacent to more than 500 acres of woodlands and hiking trails. The family later moved to Weston where Charlotte worked for several years in the town hall. The couple lived briefly in New Hampshire until Mat died, after which Charlotte returned to Weston and worked in the town hall, finally retiring at the age of 84. She was a lifelong member of Waltham’s First Lutheran Church, which her grandfather helped to build.

Charlotte was the wife of the late Mathew L. Jacobs, mother of the late Steven W. Jacobs and sister of the late Kathleen ‘Kitty’ Chisholm

She leaves her three sons, Peter K. Jacobs and his partner, Frank Atkinson, of Wellesley, George W. Jacobs and his partner, Susan Hegg, of Lincoln and Thomas M. Jacobs and his partner, Juleen LeBlanc of Jefferson, New Hampshire; four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Family and friends will honor and remember Charlotte’s life by gathering for calling hours in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte.20), Waltham on Monday, October 11th, from 4 to 7 p.m. and again on Tuesday morning in The First Lutheran Church, 6 Eddy Street, Waltham where her Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Linwood Cemetery, Weston.

Memorial donations may be made to The First Lutheran Church, 6 Eddy Street, Waltham, MA 02453, or to the Alzheimer’s Association, 311 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472.