Click below to watch this video of our many memories with Alan.
Honoring Alan B. Jacobs - YouTube
For 2024 our commitment for the Cure for Alzheimer’s continues. Once again our Art4Alzheimers group project for the Mercer-Middlesex Walk is to staff a 20ft tent with two 12ft canvases for memorial art creation by walkers, loved ones who are living with Alzheimer’s, and to remember our Loved Ones who’ve passed. We walk to honor and remember my late husband, Alan Jacobs. Alan gained his Angel's Wings February 2021. A loving Dad & Grandpa, he had such a strong zest for life, he taught our kids and grandkids to find that spark in all things. He was full of joy. From early on in our 42year marriage, we traveled the world from Europe to the Holy Land, to the Far East, much of central America, Caribbean, and Australia. Hawaii and Aruba were his favorites. Alan shared his love of adventure, laughter, music, and life with our children and grandchildren. Alan went white-water rafting, zip-lining, climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia, went sky diving with our daughter Arielle, sped on the Autobahn with our son Adam, he took Kevin & Stephanie on a Puerte Vallarta adventure. Alan was incredibly proud and supportive of all his children Kevin, Stephanie, Adam and Arielle. And Geoff. Adam’s n Arielle's careers in the arts as Broadway actors kept us on the move. No matter where it was in the world, we would fly or drive there to make sure they knew that, on opening night, Dad was always there. In March 2020, despite Alan’s continuing decline we were in Tulum, Mexico for our daughter's destination wedding. He walked Arielle down the aisle and did the father-daughter dance with her. And then things plummeted. Alan required placement and hospice in an assisted living memory care facility. For a few months more, I would hum a tune and Alan would still take my hand for a slow dance. We were at his bedside singing softly as Alan passed peacefully on February 17, 2021. Alan was part of an Alzheimer's clinical trial at Columbia New York Presbyterian. In his honor and memory, we donated his brain to their ongoing research programs. Alan, my Love, we feel you with us always.
Thank you for joining the fight against Alzheimer's.
