Reverend Reuben Benjamin Jacobson Junior

Reverend Reuben Benjamin Jacobson Junior was born November 24, 1934 in Walcott Township, ND, to Reuben and Christine Jacobson Senior.

Reuben grew up and attended school in Walcott, graduating from Walcott High School in 1952. He served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1957, stationed in Washington DC, as a Radio Operator. He continued in the United States Naval Reserve out of Fargo, until 1961. He worked on various farms including his father-in-laws farm (Frank Nelson).

On June 16, 1956, he was joined in marriage to Katheleen Francis Nelson in the Walcott Lutheran Church. Reuben attended college at North Dakota State University; graduating in 1962. Reuben and family moved to Lake Park, Minnesota where he taught and coached, until 1966. Reuben received his call to ministry in 1966 and entered Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated with his Masters in Divinity in 1969. While attending seminary Reuben worked as an assistant to the pastor at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Circle Pines, Minnesota. He was ordained on July 27th and received his first call to the rural congregations of St. Peter’s Lutheran, Chaffee, and St. John’s Lutheran, Embden, North Dakota, where he served until 1972. Rueben continued to serve up and down North Dakota Highway 18 for the next forty years: St. John’s Lutheran, Hatton, and Bethany Lutheran, rural Mayville, from 1972 to 1980; Our Savior’s Lutheran, Park River, from 1980 to 1990; Christ Lutheran, Neche, and Pembina Lutheran, Pembina, from 1990 to 1994; Leonard Lutheran, West Prairie Lutheran, and Helendale Lutheran from 1990 until he retired in 2000. Reuben and Kathy moved to West Fargo to live at the Cooperative Living Center in 1998. Reuben worked interim ministry in 2003, after his wife Kathy passed away. He served Our Savior’s Lutheran, Park River, until 2004. He then served Hatton Rural Parish, Goose River Lutheran and Little Forks Lutheran, from 2004 until 2009 when he was diagnosed with cancer. Reuben also served on different committees within the Eastern North Dakota Synod.

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[anonymous]

That is my grandfather and he was such a good man, and everyone misses him. Thank you for putting this up.