March 28, 1927 - March 23, 2015
Morris Jacobsen was born March 28, 1927 in Alberta, Canada to Theodore and Sigrid Jacobsen, the eighth of twelve children. He graduated from Prairie Bible Institute (Three Hills, AB) in 1949. Though he returned to Canada and the US for graduate school, Japan was his home for almost 50 years. He served the Lord with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), ministering as an evangelist, church planter and university professor. He married Kathleen Inniger in 1952. They were blessed with five children. The youngest died in a tragic drowning accident in 1963. Kathleen passed away in 1978. Morris married Betty Osmundson, a fellow missionary to Japan in 1979. They worked together in multiple ministries until retirement in 1997. They made the Twin Cities their home. Morris entered into eternal rest on March 23, 2015.
Morris is survived by his wife, Betty; three siblings, Ruth Thomassen, Ingmar Jacobsen and Lydia Galstad; son, Wesley (Kinnia); three daughters, Sharon (Randy) Linton, Joanne (Dan) Dorrow and Shirley (Mark) Luttio. He was proud of his thirteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, many relatives in the US and Canada, and a host of friends from around the world.
A memorial service will be held later in the spring.
So sad to hear about the passing of Morris. He is certainly in a better place.
I am praying for you Betty.
What a precious man. I will be thankful all my life that I was blessed to know him and spend time with him on so many occasions. Truly a role model with a special sweet presence about him. Heartfelt condolences, Betty.
There is sweet sadness in knowing that Morris has gone to his prepared place with the Father. Many fond memories of him as a special uncle now come to my mind. To Betty, his siblings, his immediate family and extended family, may the thoughts and prayers of kinfolk and friends be a source of comfort for you and may His Spirit strengthen you during this time of loss.
When I discovered the sad news Morris passed away in 2015 at this site, my memory of Morris and Kathleen came back. Our family enjoyed keeping very good acquaintance with the Morris family in the late 1950s and early 1960s when they were living in a remote town of Kujiranami, Niigata, Japan. They were on a missionary and I was a boy around 10 years of age. I remember, at the invitation of my mother, Joanna, one of their daughters at the age of 3 bravely agreed to come to our house and stayed one night alone with us. We reunited Morris and Kathleen at Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan in 1977 just before my wife and I were leaving for London when Morris was acting as the president of Tokyo Christian College. We invited both for dinner at our home. Joanna happened to be visiting their parents from the States. We spent really nice time.
While we were in London, we heard the shocking news that Kathleen passed away but in the following year, we heard the good news of Morris’s marriage to Betty.
Unfortunately, our stay in London lasted long, and we have lost contact since then.