Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Steele, Arma Jacobsen 1966
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Independent Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, January 26, 1966
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
January 26, 1966

Pioneer’s Kin Arma J. Steele Dies at Home.

A prominent and distinguished Payettean, Mrs. Arma Jacobsen Steele, 72, died at 
her home Sunday, following a lengthy illness.

Services were held today (Wednesday) at 3 p.m., at the Shaffer Chapel with the 
Rev. Palmer Wylde officiating.  Interment followed at Riverside cemetery here.  

Mrs. Steele was born April 12, 1893, at Payette and she lived most of her life 
in California.  She returned to Payette in 1939. 

The stately and grandiose Jacobsen residence, where she lived and passed away 
Sunday, stands as an imposing recollection to the area’s earliest days, when 
Mrs. Steele’s parents, N. A. and Mrs. Annie Jacobsen played a vigorous and 
vital role in Payette’s development.  

The Jacobsens were among the first settlers here.  N. A. Jacobsen brought the 
first fruit trees to the valley, from Europe and promoted the fruit industry 
here.  

One of N. A.’s closest friends, the famed Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, 
gave Mrs. Steele the name “Arma”. She was named after her mother and 
called “Little Annie” during her early life.  

Surviving are two nephews, Noland Jacobsen, Bozeman, Mont., and Jack Jacobsen, 
Phoenix, Ariz.; three nieces, Mrs. Roma Huschke, San Diego, Calif., Mrs. 
Dorothy Kellogg, Cambria, Calif., and Mrs. T. A. Huffman, North Hollywood, 
Calif.; seven grand-nieces, Ann Josephson, Morro Bay, Calif., Jackie Gram, 
Santa Rosa, Calif., Arma Looney, Post Falls, Idaho, Diane Doolybend, San 
Gabriel, Calif., Lana Hock, Kensington, Calif., Kathy Jacobsen and Debra 
Jacobsen, both of Phoenix and two grand-nephews, Bruce Jacobsen of Bozeman and 
Mark Jacobsen of Phoenix.  


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