Carolyn Marie Seaver Jacobsen

I was shocked this past weekend to discover my good friend Carol had passed away in May. It doesn't seem possible that she is gone.

1950 - 2008 Lehi, Utah
Carolyn Marie Seaver Jacobsen passed away suddenly Friday, May 30, 2008, in the American Fork Hospital. Known lovingly by members of her family as Carol, Sue, George, Mom, and Nana, Carolyn was born June 29, 1950, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to Eleanor Margarette Spencer and Harold Ralph Seaver. She has a brother, Jerry Richard Seaver (and wife Christine). She attended local Phoenix schools and graduated from Central High School in 1968. She attended Brigham Young University and graduated from the College of Southern Utah with a B.A. in Elementary Education.

Carolyn married Irvin Kent Jacobsen in the Mesa Arizona Temple in 1974. They have five children: Adrienne (David) Worthy, Woodstock, Georgia; Tatiana (Jonathan) Biesinger, Lehi, Utah; Christian Richard (Kelli) Jacobsen; Pleasant Grove, Utah; Meagan Elizabeth Jacobsen, Austin, Texas; and Dmitri Alexander Jacobsen, Lehi, Utah. Carolyn and Kent have seven grandchildren: Kaia Monet Worthy, Kiersten Maren Worthy, Makayla Marie Biesinger, Hannah Elizabeth Biesinger, Ellie Caroline Biesinger, Elijah Christian Jacobsen, and Noah Zion Godwin.
Carolyn loved homemaking and children. She and Kent have two exchange student sons: Kjartan Haugen, Oslo Norway; and, Nurbek Darvishev, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Cultures, languages, and travel were her hobbies. She lived in Mexico, Spain, Norway, Arizona, Utah, and New York. She traveled in Morocco, Portugal, Italy, France, Sweden, England, Guam, and Korea. Carolyn and Kent housed and befriended folk dancers during the Springville Folk Fest from Norway, Korea, India, Russia, and Macedonia.

Carolyn taught school in Salina, Utah and Springville, Utah. She served continuously in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, church leader, friend and confidant, Carolyn was respected, loved and cherished around the world. Carolyn leaves in mortality her immediate family and her fervent testimony of the divinity and mission of Jesus Christ.