Ernestine Jane (Tina) Jaeckel

Sun­bury Native
Ernes­tine Jane (Tina) Jaeckel

Ernes­tine Jane (Tina) Jaeckel entered into rest on May 29, 2012, in San Jose at the age of 88. She is sur­vived by her devoted hus­band of 63 years, George Jaeckel, and their three chil­dren, daugh­ter Car­olyn Schul­man, son Mark Jaeckel (wife Kathy) and son James Jaeckel (wife Sharon). She is also sur­vived by two broth­ers, Dewey and Ray­mond Cantrell, one sis­ter, Irene Love, 10 grand­chil­dren and four great-grandchildren.
Tina grew up on a small farm near Sun­bury, with seven broth­ers and three sis­ters. She and George met at work in Colum­bus, and they mar­ried there in 1948. They lived for a time in Colum­bus, Indi­anapo­lis, St. Louis and Lan­caster, Cal­i­for­nia, before mov­ing to their Los Altos, Cal­i­for­nia, home 53 years ago.
Tina was a mem­ber of the First Bap­tist Church of Los Altos for over 30 years. She was a “pink lady” vol­un­teer at El Camino Hos­pi­tal and also helped process appli­ca­tions to the Stan­ford Grad­u­ate School. She enjoyed play­ing ten­nis and golf. George and Tina were mem­bers of the Foothills Ten­nis and Swim club for 18 years.
Tina was devoted to her fam­ily. She was known as a lov­ing, gen­tle and giv­ing per­son. She will be remem­bered as one who was always cheer­ful and a friend to many.
A memo­r­ial ser­vice will be held at Span­gler Mor­tu­ary, 399 South San Anto­nio, Los Altos, on Sat­ur­day, June 23, at 10:30 a.m. A recep­tion will follow.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jun 20 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.