Estella Jacobsen Fox, 87, died of pneumonia, May 18, 2006, at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell.

Burial at Pine Slope Cemetery.

Estella Rose Parks, eighth of 11 children of Edwin Pond Parks and his wife Ella Mae (Elliott) Parks, was born April 5, 1919, on the family homestead near Fairburn in Custer County, where she grew up and graduated from the rural Bower School. She started high school in Rapid City, but left to return home and help her widowed father raise her younger siblings.

"Stella" married Francis Wilkins Jacobsen Nov. 23, 1938, at the Presbyterian Manse in Rapid City. They lived all of their married lives on the Jacobsen Ranch surrounding his parents' Castle Rock Store and Post Office located 17 miles north of Newell. Her husband died April 17, 1970.

In 1972, she turned the ranch over to her youngest son and wife, Harlan and Mary Jacobsen, and moved to Belle Fourche.

She married Bernie D. "Mickey" Fox Aug. 27, 1978, at the United Church of Christ-Congregational, Belle Fourche. He died Sept. 7, 1987.

In October of 2001, she moved from her home to Elkhorn Assisted Living in Belle Fourche. In September of 2002, she moved to Spearfish and lived at Hickory House Apartments until April of 2003 when she moved to the adjoining Ponderosa Assisted Living Center. In October of 2004, she became a resident of Dorsett Healthcare Facility in Spearfish. In January of 2005, she moved to Firesteel Healthcare Center in Mitchell to be near her daughter and husband.

During her lifetime, she was a member of the Rebecca Lodge, an Extension Club, Book and Thimble Club, Senior Citizens' Center, Butte County Historical Society, and Newell's Congregational Church.

She was a constituent member of the Belle Fourche United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her daughter, Patricia and George Breidenbach, Mitchell; son, Merle and Mary Ann Jacobsen, Gainesville, Va.; daughter-in-law, Mary Jacobsen, Castle Rock; seven grandchildren: Stacey and husband Bill Smith, Pierre, Patricia Jacobsen, San Francisco, Calif., Jerome and wife Anne Jacobsen, Blacksburg, Va., Teresa and husband Mike Dourney, Tampa, Fla., Carla Jacobsen, Rapid City, Tanya and husband R.J. Ludwick, Sturgis, and Melody Jacobsen, Castle Rock; nine great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ella Glaser and Hope Hart, Oregon; and Joy Jordan Bell, California; and numerous nieces and nephews and their families.

Preceding her in death were her parents; two husbands; four brothers; four sisters; and son Harlan Jacobsen in July 2004.

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