J
ulie Claire (Ziegler) Jacoby passed
away February 5, 2011.
She was born September 3, 1924, in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, the
second of four children. She graduated
from the University of Michigan, Phi
Beta Kappa, majoring in medieval
history, in 1946. She moved to Chicago, where she met her future
husband, William A. Jacoby, marrying in 1948. She was proud
until the end to call herself an FDR Democrat. She worked for
social change and justice with various organizations, including the
Alliance to End Repression; Illinois Prisons and Jail Project (in
Chicago); the ACLU of Utah (in Salt Lake City), where she sat on the
Board of Directors and assisted in its fight against the death
penalty; and the Southwest Research and Information Center (in
Albuquerque; an organization addressing environmental and social
issues in the Four Corners area), for which she edited and wrote.
She is survived by her three children, Mary Ann Jacoby (Dan)
Miller, Peter (Jeanne Wagner) Jacoby, and Jim (Emilee) Jacoby, and
by three granddaughters, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Kalindi. In her
last conversation, she quoted as solace lines from the following
sonnet by Shakespeare:
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.