Mike was born February 9, 1956, in Little Rock, AR to Leon L. Jacobs, Jr. and Polly Park. He graduated from Skyline High School in Dallas, TX, then served in the Air Force, and moved to Vicksburg, MS to live near his father, stepmother and grandparents. He worked with the Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River. In the early 1980’s he moved to Tucson, AZ where he attended Pima Community College full-time and worked as a manufacturing engineer at Burr-Brown, Inc. He married Rebecca S. Dunnaway in 1986. They moved from Tucson to Los Angeles and then, in 1990, moved to Olathe, KS, finally settling in Wyandotte County in 1995. Mike went to work as a truck salesman for Kansas City Peterbilt in December 2002, and was honored to be in the Top 100 Salesmen this past May for the Peterbilt Corporation. He was honest, organized, hardworking, and would anything for anyone. He was greatly loved and terribly missed.
Mike is survived by his wife Rebecca of Kansas City, KS; a son, Kyle D. Jacobs (Megan) and granddaughters (Hannah, Rowan, Reese and Hadley) of Lee’s Summit, MO; a daughter, Erin M. Jacobs of Lenexa, KS; his father, Ret. Maj. Leon L. Jacobs, Jr. of Vicksburg, MS; sisters, Diane Meyer (Jay) of Lakeville, MN, and Jill Jacobs of San Jose, CA. Siblings on his mother’s side: Robin Decker of Houston, TX; Rebecca Hooper of ; Robert Hooper (Angie) of Houston, TX; and Mary Elizabeth Hooper of Houston, TX. He also had many nephews and two nieces.
Visitation will be from 10-11:00 AM with Memorial service at 11:00 AM Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the Porter Funeral Home, 1835 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66102. Burial at National Cemetery, Leavenworth, KS. Donations may be made to the The American Cancer Society, https://donate3.cancer.org.