Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jacocks, Arthur Winston December 7, 1932
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Virginian-Pilot  December 9 & 10, 1932
Friends and acquaintances in many walks of the city’s life are saddened by the 
untimely death of Arthur Winston Jacocks, but, in the newspaper family of which he 
was a member for thirty-eight years, the sorrow is deepened by a feeling of deep 
personal bereavement. Joining the Norfolk Virginian at the age of fourteen, he 
soon manifested those qualities of industry, intelligence and dependability that 
made him a permanent place with it. He had barely passed his thirties when he was 
appointed superintendent of the paper’s mechanical forces with responsibilities 
that extended to every department concerned with the printing and manufacture of 
this newspaper.
At the time of his death, he had held this post for more than ten years. It is not 
an easy one to fill. It calls for organizing ability, for an expert understanding 
of machines, materials and processes; for swift decisions and assignments in 
recurrent emergencies when the getting out of the paper involved a neck-and-neck 
contest with Time; and, very importantly, it calls for the ability to handle with 
justice and tact the questions of discipline and, sometimes, of conflicting 
interest, that arise from time to time in employee and employer relationships.
Mr. Jacocks fully measured up to all these demands. But high technical 
qualifications do not of themselves form a man’s dearest bond with his fellow-
workers. That bond is fashioned of qualities having little to do with 
considerations of personal competency. Mr. Jacocks was rich in these qualities. He 
possessed kindness of heart and gentleness of manner. One instinctively trusted 
him to do the right thing, and one was never disappointed. Serene even in periods 
of highest pressure and excitement, even-tempered, soft-spoken, and yet at all 
times alertly on his exacting job, Mr. Jacocks was, especially in his later years, 
an important co-ordinating figure of the Virginian-Pilot family, beloved by all 
its members. He was their friend and they were his friends. That death took him 
mid-career when his experience and fine qualities were just beginning to bring him 
their cumulative rewards, makes the sorrow of his friends all the keener.

Funeral services for Arthur Winston Jacocks, whose death from a heart attack 
Wednesday came as a shock to his many friends here, were conducted at the 
residence, 717 West Thirty-sixth street, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by 
the Rev. Leo J. Ryan, pastor of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church.
There was a large attendance at the funeral, including executives and 
representatives of every department of the Virginian-Pilot, with which Mr. Jacocks 
had been connected for the past 38 years. Delegations from the Elks and the 
Knights of Pythias, of which Mr. Jacocks was a member, attended. There were many 
floral tributes, and the casket was covered with a double cluster of Easter 
lilies, premier roses, and fern.
Pallbearers were E. L. Wilson, E. H. Rawls, J. S. Wallace, W. J. Gwaltney, Egbert 
Behncken, Frank S. Pace, H. B. Tatem and John J. Madden. Burial was in St. Mary’s 
Cemetery.


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